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.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/04/the-wages-of-arianna/203395/
