Or you could start your own news channel on YouTube, and advertise it locally (in the local paper / subway / with locally-targeted Internet ads). It's not comp

Or you could start your own news channel on YouTube, and advertise it locally (in the local paper / subway / with locally-targeted Internet ads). It's not computer programming that's special. It's computers themselves -- they have greatly lowered the barrier to entry for many creative professions. (For which we must thank programmers, of course!)