Columnist Keeps Rolling That Journalism Boulder Back Up the Hill

In defense of a mixed bag

For Casey Freeman, leading off hypothetically, a tipster whispering about a political scandal on the level of Watergate would edge out an interview opportunity with Sigourney Weaver. But just… barely.

Freeman writes for the Colorado Daily, a newspaper located in Boulder, Colo. that is generally acknowledged to be the oldest such free daily in the U.S. At several points in his piece, headlined “Popular to Contrary Opinion: Perks of Journalism Outweigh Hardships,” he makes no bones about the current state of the profession when nary a Bezos or Baquet is involved:

Life lessons are to be learned all around a newspaper.

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