And like Margaret Maples, I saw many people in the workplace just lose hope and leave. It didn't help that the spirit of camaraderie was lost. Where once we could go out and drink and bitch and cry on each other's shoulders, in recent years there hasn't even been that relief. Lifestyles change, young reporters go home to their families after work, the famous press watering holes closed for lack of business. Jimenez never expected to leave newspapers, and he doesn't think he would have if the business had stayed what it was.
Publishing is a business.
Journalism is not about profit and loss. It's not about demographics. Its heart and soul is news, information, and a happy story once in a while. Publishing, on the other hand, is about how many pages, it's about advertising contracts. Journalism has become lost inside this publishing machine.