Bill, that’s been the reason print reporters have been spewing vitriol for the last decade.

Their industry has been contracting and laying off workers for more than a decade. Once you get beyond the stars, it’s a job where the pink slip is always, always in your mind. And that was before the rise of blogs, internet news sources, and internet media critics. The rise of the web is much like the automation of the car industry, or steelmaking: it takes fewer employees to do the job. It can be quite depressing.

It’s always been, directly or indirectly, about job security.

Bloggers and traditional reporters will coexist because bloggers need the original reporting that the papers provide, and the papers need the internet. But only the print reporters have to worry about their jobs.