Someone on the Internet is Wrong
December 9th, 2008 by Nick SaintConsensus is a rare beast in the blogosphere, but left, right, and center are all speaking with one voice on Mark Pinsky’s call to bring back the Federal Writers Project:
Like Detroit’s troubled Big Three automakers, federal intervention to save the newspaper and magazine industries are highly problematic, at best. Ink-on-paper periodicals are never coming back, and it may be some time before the web can provide well-paying jobs with health benefits–if it ever will. Until then, providing some way to provide young journalists a way to get started, or displaced media workers a way to transition to new occupations, or to retirement, might help–and serve the nation in the process.
A lot of people have responded to this, not because they think it’s an interesting idea or that it might actually happen, but because when someone is this wrong, it’s hard to resist pointing it out, as in the famous “I can’t come to bed, honey, someone on the internet is wrong.” I won’t add to the chorus of refutations, but will simply recommending filing this idea here:
