If you are a true journalist, the world is going to kick your ass. If you are a true journalist, you are supposed to be having a hard time. This is how the world makes writers. It kicks their ass long enough that they start finally telling the truth. They just finally give up and start bleating out little truthlets.
Cary Tennis, on being a “journalist" after someone wrote in and complained that they studied print and print is dead and Journalism Schools won’t acknowledge it.