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Sat 07 Jul 2009Sprinting is not all about fast twitchy muscles
ON ATHLETICS:NO ONE in their right mind ever gets into journalism for the money. First a pay freeze. Then a pay cut. Next, it seems, will be pay your own way. This is not a pretty time for any profession and our slow and old-fashioned trade is no exception.
According to Vanity Fair, the last ever newspaper will be printed in 2016, somewhere in Kazakhstan. The final countdown is well under way. The saddest part is we’ll hardly be missed. Hunter S Thompson always said journalism is a strange, seedy world full of misfits and drunkards and failures – and that a group photo of the top 10 journalists in America on any given day would be a monument to human ugliness. Indeed.
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