I believe I've shared this before.

About her 3rd job after graduating with a very expensive degree in journalism, my buddy's daughter was hired as an editor with 12 "journalists" working for her at one of the 3 largest newspapers in the US (not WaPo). Only 2 out of 12 could write at a college level.

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
I believe I've shared this before.

About her 3rd job after graduating with a very expensive degree in journalism, my buddy's daughter was hired as an editor with 12 "journalists" working for her at one of the 3 largest newspapers in the US (not WaPo). Only 2 out of 12 could write at a college level.

To be fair, a good friend graduated with a degree in journalism from Mizzou in the 80s and started a newspaper in eastern WA, and has done very very well.

He could sell the paper for seven figures.

Not every journalist is a lefty idiot. Be careful with your paintbrush.

That was pretty good. It made me think what it would be like to hire an engineer to write software for weapons targeting and control, municipal water purification, or distribution optimization, and how long that engineer would last if he purposely wrote the code to destroy the wrong target, kill people who drank the water, or purposely chose the worst possible distribution algorithms to maximize costs. I love engineers because they make the world go around, but unlike engineers, may these shit "journalists" reap the full reward from their long history of massive lies, societal dysfunction, and general mayhem. Looks like they picked the wrong degree in college, but then again they were too lazy to work on anything related to rigor or real work.

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Originally posted by FishOn:

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
I believe I've shared this before.

About her 3rd job after graduating with a very expensive degree in journalism, my buddy's daughter was hired as an editor with 12 "journalists" working for her at one of the 3 largest newspapers in the US (not WaPo). Only 2 out of 12 could write at a college level.

To be fair, a good friend graduated with a degree in journalism from Mizzou in the 80s and started a newspaper in eastern WA, and has done very very well.

He could sell the paper for seven figures.

Not every journalist is a lefty idiot. Be careful with your paintbrush.

You've assumed paintbrush as well as extrapolated not writing at a college level to lefty idiot. Both are your issues not mine.

I was sharing an interesting story about another large newspaper. I would've assumed more of a bell curve on being able to write at a college level (i.e. 1 or 2 slipped through cracks, 8 to 10 are solid, and 1 or 2 are all-stars).

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Originally posted by FishOn:

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
I believe I've shared this before.

About her 3rd job after graduating with a very expensive degree in journalism, my buddy's daughter was hired as an editor with 12 "journalists" working for her at one of the 3 largest newspapers in the US (not WaPo). Only 2 out of 12 could write at a college level.

To be fair, a good friend graduated with a degree in journalism from Mizzou in the 80s and started a newspaper in eastern WA, and has done very very well.

He could sell the paper for seven figures.

Not every journalist is a lefty idiot. Be careful with your paintbrush.

I really doubt he was referring to graduates of the 80s. The people I graduated from college with in that time worked their asses off, there was no woke quarter of any kind given to students in engineering or journalism or anything else.

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To be fair, salary is only a portion of what an employee costs. Some rules of thumb say that the true cost of an employee is 2.5 to 3X their direct compensation.

That's incredibly high. Loaded cost rate is based on an hourly wage, not total salary.

So someone making $140k/yr has an unloaded hourly rate of $70/hr. The load would be somewhere between 1.25x to 1.5x their unloaded rate. On the way out side you might have 2x if your business has a lot of expenses but I've never seen it. So a loaded rate for this employee would be between $87/hr to $105/hr.

Companies couldn't stay in business if their load was 2x -3x their employees salary comp.

WaPo has been in a who can be the most lefty newspaper contest with the New York Times. Pravda vs. Isvestia. Loosing the WaPo won't be a loss, it's a times for a celebration.

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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, bought a newspaper and not a daycare center for crybaby liars that will cost him $100 million a year to subsidize?