Well, you really have a pretty good grasp on the state of journalism affairs. In the five years I spent reporting, I saw newsrooms decline substantially at all

Well, you really have a pretty good grasp on the state of journalism affairs. In the five years I spent reporting, I saw newsrooms decline substantially at all the papers I worked at (and was the victim of one layoff). You're absolutely right in saying that there is just too much demand on journalists now. People really don't know what they actually do. Everything from aggregating (by HAND, nonetheless) public information that isn't available easily online to investigative reporting to daily "fill-the-paper" stories (you know, the stupid stuff that nobody really cares to read anyway). Most of my time was spent writing the boring shit until the exciting stuff came along. And frankly, you can't spend all your time writing the exciting stuff because you still have to have a local product, not to mention the massive amount of time it takes just to do a single investigative report. Investigative articles are really what I consider the heart of journalism as the fourth estate, and is what sells the papers. But you can't have five days of nothing and a day of explosive articles. Or hell, maybe you can, who knows. In any case, just wanted to pipe in with some props on realizing that journalists are way too overburdened to be effective any more.