Journalism is like theater
In an interview with Frank Rich Dan Savage makes a great analogy between theater and journalism (via):
Actually, I think there is a parallel in theater. For people who want to have careers in journalism, it’s just like if you want to be an actor. There are so many people who want to be actors that people will do for free. And you will do it for free, for a time, before anyone will pay you to do it. It’s sort of like that with journalism now. So many people want to do it, and there are so few jobs, that you will blog, you will write for free until someone decides to tap you and pay you.
I’d never heard it put that way before but that makes a lot of sense to me.
Looks like you should get paid for your passion…