Gawker: Newspaper Columnists are Too Old
Gawker has uncovered something fairly obvious: The majority of newspaper columnists are old dudes. The site crunched the data for columnists at The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. It also included columnists at The Creators Syndicate, Universal Press, King Features and Tribune Media. Gawker found that the average and median age was about 60.
This, according to Gawker, is a terrible thing. This is why there are so many terrible columns published:
Why are newspaper opinion columnists so consistently baffled by the politics, technologies, and social mores of the 21st century? We’ve crunched some data, and we think we’ve figured out the answer: They’re old as hell.
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