Emily White's article works on the same understanding as the articles we worked last week about the gradual fazing out of printed news. White is not subtle in her opinion about the dangers of this trend, citing the "Blogosphere Fear" as a legitimate "terror that the blogs will get the story before the newspaper gets it" brought on by the increasing value of breaking news over anything else as well as the increased accessibility of news published on the web.
White's anecdote about Sheila Farr's "voluntary layoff"as a Seattle Times arts critic conflicts with my own understanding of the writing market. Teri Ellison describes Farr as possessing a "gift for putting visual experience into language"--a skill many have explained to me as crucial in contemporary writing. If even a well-established regular contributer with such refined writing tools cannot make it due to the circumstances and opinions White describes, there is little hope for my own future.
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