{"id":19706,"date":"2025-10-14T16:45:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=19706"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:59:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:59:49","slug":"media-why-do-people-write-stories-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2025\/10\/14\/media-why-do-people-write-stories-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Why do people write stories like this?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I live with my parents and work a remote job. From student loans to ‘fun money,’ here’s where every penny of my paycheck goes.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has a college degree and earns $2,500\/month, and lives at her parent’s home to reduce expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By comparison, the monthly median pay of an Amazon warehouse worker is $3,200\/month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“A graduate of the University of Maryland in 2025, she has a degree in Journalism with a minor in General Business”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Not understanding why someone would want to publicize these choices; assuming this is a temporary internship that leads to something better. Then again, the US BLS says the average pay for someone with a journalism degree is just over US $50k\/year as the market for reporters and freelance writers is saturated. That means supply exceeds demand and on the market price for writers is low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related<\/strong> odd media story<\/strong>: This is supposed to be a story to cause outrage – ICE now targeting legal residents in Chicago and fining them $130 for not having papers on person<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But – turns out that legal immigrants are required by law to have their immigration identification accessible at all times. The individual cited, here, lives in government provided housing. As I have said on my Travel\/Global blog, I do not support the unnecessary approach used by ICE and am strongly opposed to the use of racist selectors like skin color to interrogate people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She writes a story about living at home to save money, while earning just $2,500\/month as, basically, a writer. Make this make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}