Build a time machine to go back and tell themselves to get off their high horses and prepare for the new media before they find themselves in this situation. If they'd figured out micropayments, resisted the urge to provide free content online (hence building expectations that their content would always be free), and blocked the consolidators, they might be better off. Though not by much and not for too long. They're going to have to change or perish, but I'm not sure how. They don't seem to be looking beyond keeping the current workforce employed until retirement. I'd be more sympathetic if I encountered fewer "We're indispensable! Why don't you cretins realize that and carry our asses for another century?" rants.
I have more to say, but it's getting late. I'll just say that I'm sympathetic with anyone who might lose their career. But on the other hand, as a freelancer, I've never been in the inner circle, and I've seen too many formula-following hacks in that circle get regular ink. So, deal with it, chums. Plenty of other people are losing jobs who never have the opportunity to tell thousands of readers to look out for them.
I have more to say, but it's getting late. I'll just say that I'm sympathetic with anyone who might lose their career. But on the other hand, as a freelancer, I've never been in the inner circle, and I've seen too many formula-following hacks in that circle get regular ink. So, deal with it, chums. Plenty of other people are losing jobs who never have the opportunity to tell thousands of readers to look out for them.
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