Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

Off course nearly all working journalists have college degrees. That is not in doubt.

But you are quoting Zorax, not a journalist. This one was absolutely right:

Here’s what we don’t say out loud: There’s no money in journalism anymore. No fame, no glamour, no prestige. But there’s lots and lots of money in media—in being a brand, an influencer, a personality. We stopped paying journalists and started rewarding performers.

... We spent a decade-plus dismantling the institutional guardrails that once protected young journalists. Salaries plummeted. Job security evaporated. Newsroom mentorship disappeared. What replaced it? A ruthless attention economy where your Instagram and Twitter followers mattered far more than your editor’s guidance, where “personal brand” became the only portable asset in an industry of constant layoffs and collapses. We told a generation of talented writers: You’re not a reporter for an institution. You ARE the institution. Your access is your value. Your personality is your product.

https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-olivia-nuzzi-comeback-is-everything-wrong-with-modern-media/

What he accurately describes is how it works now, and it's very different from how it used to work.