After all the doom and gloom in the newsroom yesterday, today I am working with a group of media students at the local University.
And to quote the old cliche: what a difference a day makes.
They are all fresh faced and excited about getting jobs in the industry, enthusiastic about news and broadcasting.
What a wizened, cynical, embittered old hack I seem in comparison!! It's astonishing to think I was the same as them only 8/9 years ago, when I first got into journalism.
What a difference a decade makes...
I hadn't the heart to tell the students about how bad yesterday was, and about what I believe is the imploding state of TV news. And they will be cheap to hire - so may get jobs very easily anyway.
After all, the company that I work for ran an advert a few weeks ago, appealing to "new talent" to come forward and apply for jobs, "no experience necessary." (!!!)
You can imagined how angry and heartbroken we all were - what's wrong with us, the old talent?!
Don't worry - I already know that the answer is in the question. We are too expensive....
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