Ad Age reports that the American media work force is at a 15 year low—only 886,900 employed, thanks to the slumping newspaper industry.

What's that? You mean fresh and seasoned journalists alike, with college or j-school degrees and portfolios full of hard-earned clips from unpaid internships and past gigs, don't want to work sixty to eighty hours a week, round the clock, for substandard salaries and paltry benefits so that they can be the first one to break the story of Britney's latest twilight Rite-Aid run so that in a few months' time they can be trusted to handle the really big news, like today's front page story on  the weather?

You don't say.