HELP WANTED: 40ish WM seeks personal editor to hlp aggregate and digest news and info. Prvs employees were fired for bias, laziness, and lack of relevance. Top candidates will be well-read, smart, connected, and eager to separate fact from BS. Job expectations include 24/7 maintenance of list of news items I would consider most important to me. Pay is non-existent, as I refuse to pay for content either. Contact me at ike@pigott.name

Welcome to the 21st century, where we’ve fired all the editors and now we’re whining about the lack of quality in the content.

To be fair, I blame the owners for giving the editors less and less to work with, and too many incentives to cut corners instead of pushing back toward quality.

But every time I unsubscribed from the paper, or took my news free straight from the internet, I inched closer to firing the editor. And an Editor In Chief is precisely what I need to make sense of the world today.

There are probably thousands of them floating around, eager for the work. But we’re too spoiled to pay them what they’re worth.