Comments on: Actor: Reality TV Star:: Journalist: Blogger?

By: Jaclyn Schiff

Jaclyn Schiff — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:50:38 +0000

ha, interesting observation about your consulting experience. I haven’t researched whether reality TV actors are paid. My impression is that on shows like “The Amazing Race” and “The Biggest Loser” most of the “cast” is not paid, but they’re all competing for the pay, ie: the prize. It seems like the cast of “The Hills” is paid, but I’m not sure that’s actually a reality show…

By: torbjorn

torbjorn — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:17:45 +0000

…just a quick comment (then back to lunch, I swear)…

regarding observation 1 – are you sure “reality tv” actors are unpaid? for some reason I have my doubts. Then again, the screaming girls on ANTM sure seem unpaid.

Also, this reminds me of working in the consulting business when we’re competing for work against retired govt. workers who don’t need to make a buck. They can underbid us by miles, then come and use our services for just small bits of that same project.

…ah, life and business. Fun!

By: Stuart Foster

Stuart Foster — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:18:41 +0000

No problem . Glad to take the plunge!

By: Jaclyn Schiff

Jaclyn Schiff — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:19:12 +0000

@Stuart, thanks for taking the plunge and being the first to comment on my blog!! I totally appreciate it!

I’m not sure that PR is less of a headache, in PR you’re answerable to clients, which can be a huge pain.

Interesting point about self publishing. It seems like when self-published sites become uber successful they start needing to take on paid staff and people who can share the workload to meet the demand… so we’re in this weird place now, but in 5 years I bet there’ll be a ton of niche blogs and Web sites with full-time paid writers. Of course, we’re still working on the business model that will allow that… but I think it will happen.

By: Stuart Foster

Stuart Foster — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:01:56 +0000

This is a sad sad state of affairs. But unfortunately it is an accurate one. You can make far more money with far less of a headache in PR if you are a journalist. With cutbacks in media a constant threat…why bother? I’m anticipating most sources of information in the future will be self published because of their flexibility/speed. Will they always be accurate? Probably not…but they may be accurate enough to push a lot of media outlets under.