The death of an industry but not the death of me

Last night, while catching up on Wednesday night's episode of "The Colbert Report," Stephen had on a guest to discuss the death of the newspaper industry. That guest was Phil Bronstein, editor at large of Heart Newspapers and former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. (Little-known fact: My Aunt Gina eyed Phil cheating on his [now ex-] wife Sharon Stone while at a restaurant. The next day, the couple filed for divorce.) Stephen's first statement to Paul: "Sir, you're a newspaper editor...so I assume you're here applying for a job?" Sad.

Anyway, for my fellow journalists out there, it was an interesting interview on how the newspaper (and, I'm assuming, all print mediums) are being killed by free news on the Internet. He even said that at a recent publishers' meeting, they discussed using micropayments for news, similar to how iTunes uses payments per song. It's a sad yet funny clip, and if you're interested, you can watch it below. If not, scroll past for more news.

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It was recently suggested that I spend the day watching daytime TV judges. Well, I did. And it was awful.

BUT, I found a bright spot: I do not want to be a lawyer (sorry to those of you who voted for that as a career choice for me). If I were a lawyer and had to deal with judges who acted like Judge Judy, Judge Christina, Judge Penny, Judge Alex and the many more who I forced myself to watch (also, sorry Judge Feldman, Judge McColley and any other friends' parents who are judges), I would honestly die. And I don't want to die.

I also don't want to be a lawyer. So again, thank you, unemployment, for helping me refine my career focus.