… Now living out of his pickup truck. This is a near heartbreaking story of a 60ish reporter can’t find work and has been essentially camping out for more than a year. The real pathos emerges from the fact that he’s trying valiantly to find work in his chosen field and nobody much wants a guy his age.
And this is just another of the ugly little facets of working as a reporter: if you can’t bring bylines at a salary they like, they give you the boot. How many of us hardened desk hands would ever be in the same bind?
(Correction: I removed references to the Wall Street Journal in this post after it became clear that the guy hasn’t worked there since the late 1970s. Click on comments for more background).
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