Might It Be Time to Get Out of Entertainment Journalism?
Is this the end of the road?
I’ve written this before, but a big question I’m always asked by aspiring journalists, right after “What’s it like to talk to a celebrity,” is “how do I do what you do?” I’ve always told them things like “It’s hard” to “Only do it if you absolutely love it AND can financially afford to do it” but, lately, I’ve felt like the harbinger of Doom outright telling them “Just don’t. Do something else.” I’ve felt like this for a few months now, the result of both leaving a toxic AF job that attempted to break my confidence as a writer as well as seeing a lot of good writers (and several friends) devote their lives to entertainment journalism and end up one in a bevy of corporate layoffs.
Thus, the question above. Is it time for me or, really, all of us, to admit that entertainment journalism is dying and we should all go become plumbers?
