"gatt" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message news:QDGxc.70

Thank heavens none of us are like that.

None of us get paid BIG BUCKS for

When I earned my Journalism degree in 1993, "big bucks" was something like
$17,000 a year. It's about the same now. Maybe $20K.

It's interesting watching pilots trash-talking journalists for not knowing
everything

I work in Civil Engineering and when one of our people don't the answer,
they ask around to find someone who does. It's not hard, really.

and assuming that journalists make "big bucks."

Know how much the talking heads on TV make?

There's
interesting similarities. It's one of the highest-profile and most
treacherous trades,

Yeah...so many got killed last year.

and also one of the lowest-paying.

I doubt a $20K a year journalist is very influential, which is what we were
talking about.