{"id":5327,"date":"2016-01-18T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5327"},"modified":"2016-01-18T18:15:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T18:15:19","slug":"linked-in-america-only-the-rich-can-afford-to-write-about-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/01\/18\/linked-in-america-only-the-rich-can-afford-to-write-about-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;In America, only the rich can afford to write about poverty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/aug\/06\/america-rich-write-about-poverty\">via The Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>True, the internet filled with a multiplicity of new outlets to write for, but paying writers or other \u201ccontent providers\u201d turned out not to be part of their business plan. I saw my own fees at one major news outlet drop to one third of their value between 2004 and 2009. I heard from younger journalists who were scrambling for adjunct jobs or doing piecework in \u201ccorporate communications.\u201d But I determined to carry on writing about poverty and inequality even if I had to finance my efforts entirely on my own. And I felt noble for doing so.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who is to blame? The media corporations that owe their stockholders a positive balance sheet or the people around the globe who thought news should be free?<\/p>\n<p>I criticize lazy journalism and invasive advertisements and \u2018listicles\u2019 on this blog nearly every month but I also pay for my content and don\u2019t block\u00a0ads on websites that respect my privacy yet choose not to charge for their content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via The Guardian: True, the internet filled with a multiplicity of new outlets to write for, but paying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:03:43Z","apple_news_api_id":"cb63141c-6aa8-4f68-b5e3-b1d875538cd2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:03:43Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ay2MUHGqoT2i147HYdVOM0g","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1nV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5805,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/06\/23\/linked-goodnight-and-good-luck\/","url_meta":{"origin":5327,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Goodnight, and good luck&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Al Jazeera America: For Al Jazeera America online, no human tragedy could be reduced to a statistic or dismissed as the collateral damage of another\u2019s self-defense or an inevitable consequence of geography, politics, class, race, sect or ethnicity. 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