L Moore

The Death of Profitable Journalism

Professional boundaries are not static; they transform every few decades. The fancy word for this is deprofessionalization. American medicine changed the roles between doctors and nurses in the 1980s by adding a new role, the physician assistant. Today, journalism is being crowded by new roles (bloggers, etc) that compete with the traditional one. If journalists don't adapt well then they can be marginalized or completely done away with. Let the market decide.