Why the Right Is Wrong to Celebrate the Gutting of Newsrooms

If you’re thinking about going into journalism, think again.

In January, alone, more than 500 journalists were laid off from media outlets like NBC News, Time magazine, Business Insider, and The Los Angeles Times. And that doesn’t even count the nearly 20 journalists who lost jobs this past week when The Wall Street Journal gutted its D.C. bureau—or the roughly 300 who were unceremoniously let go from The Messenger, a general news site that was online for less than a year—on Wednesday.

Whether you work for a scrappy upstart or a legacy media behemoth—the words of Bruce Springsteen are starting to hit home: “These jobs are going boys, and they ain’t coming back.”

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