The Wages Of Arianna

Or, the worsening plight of non-celebrity journalists:

For a working hackthat word is used here without judgmentit's hard enough to get a pitch accepted by an editor (much less an 11-page evergreen on a 72-year-old who's in not in the Jonas Brothers). But now you gotta compete with writers editors think are cooler, better connected, and who don't even need the money.