Why journalists deserve low pay | csmonitor.com

Why journalists deserve low pay | csmonitor.com: "Journalists are not professionals with a unique base of knowledge such as professors or electricians. Consequently, the primary economic value of journalism derives not from its own knowledge, but in distributing the knowledge of others."

OK, got it. The typical salary for a journalist is $33K/year, slightly below that of an assistant manager at a McDonald's restaurant.
Thomas Jefferson, of course, couldn't imagine the great benefit that a McDonald's Happy Meal could bring to our fledgling democracy when he remarked:

"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. ME 6:57

After all, we'ved learned that newspaper customer satisfaction is below cell phone companies, scoring 10 points lower than health insurance companies.