Expecting people to have a degree, years of experience for low salary seems to be quite common (gets commented on LinkedIn) we need to change how we recruit people, the employers who are sensible will get the best, the rest with unrealisic want lists will hopefully continue to struggle and eventually fall out of existance.
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sigh Since we appear to be on the descent towards a quasi-feudal iteration of parasitic capitalism, it seems sadly unlikely, though.
The job situation in journalism as an industry, like many others, spinning on an axis strung between bullshit jobs (c.f. Graeber) and the reserve army of labour (see Marx, building upon the work of Engels).
The job spec and conditions are patterned to make individual workers as replaceable as possible, and ensure that they're aware of it.
The role of workers within the fourth (and indeed fifth) estate is further thrown into sharp relief by the relative (vast) social heft of the companies that employ them.