Mark Penn: More Americans Earn Primary Income As Bloggers Than Firefighters Or Bartenders

Wall Street Journal:

In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than Americans working as computer programmers, firefighters or even bartenders.

Paid bloggers fit just about every definition of a microtrend: Their ranks have grown dramatically over the years, blogging is an important social and cultural movement that people care passionately about, and the number of people doing it for at least some income is approaching 1% of American adults.

Read the whole story: Wall Street Journal

Comments

[KindMisica]

Well, I kinda doubt 1% of working Americans get paid for blogging. But the point I want to make here is that it's a good thing to look for sources of income by thinking outside the box. Lots of people could make money working at home pursuing their hobbies.
I'm in the process of doing just that, by taking up an old hobby: painting. Won't get me rich or anything, but it's better than doing nothing and it could help us "ride the wave" till the economy gets better.

[1sparrow]

i am here to tell you that it is 99 degrees outside and there is no global warming.--­(is the check in the mail exxon?) also, all that rot about a soon to be world war three is balderdash! (did you mail the check yet, mr. rotheschild and mr. rockefeller and the bilderbergs?)

[goodog]

Gooooooooo­oooooooooo­od, can't this man admit he lost the election that was totally Clinton's to win and just goooooooooooo awaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaa­y?

[entrenchedhoosier]

One year ago, this guy was in charge of and responsible for much of the crap that was propelled in candidate Obama's direction.
And now he's writing in Rupert's Recent Rag Requisition?
He evidently did not consider reading the posts on this blog last year.
If he had, then the article might link reasonable, intelligent discourse and not monetary profit to blogging.

[BBackSoon]

Hell, I am upset that there are more Lawyers than there are Firefighters! Or Bartenders!

Personally, I feel he is full of shite and it simply spills out from time to time.

[larry278]

Blogging is also a popular hobby according to the WSJ. A lot of people enjoy surfing the web. How does one determine when a person who comments upon blogs posted on a site, such as HP, & the site posts the comment becomes a blogger or is called a blogger? HP limits comments to less than 250 words. One could object to calling one who submits comments on a blog shorter than 250 words a blogger. Is there a consensus on when one becomes a blogger? Yes, I'm off thread again.
I should be grateful if anyone tells me when an idle commenter, commentator(?), becomes a blogger. I'd appreciate citations & links. I'm off to Wikipedia now to see if they have an opinion.

[Economike]

I always thought of myself as a commenter.

[ohiomark]

.......and Keith Olbermann uses them as "sources".

[BBackSoon]

Wow what a biting comment. Those of us that watch his show have now seen the light and will start following those Pillars of Truth and Fairness Bill Oraly and Rush.

Thank you again for redirecting my wasted life to the Right.

[mizerello]

It must be nice to be paid by WSJ etc. to have someone else write something for you filled with statistics and very little content. This guy is an overpaid consultant who simply won't go away.

[NoSandwiches]

your polling tell you that?

huh

[bungalow]

This is the guy that didn't even know about how delegates were awarded in caucus states, and now he has the whole blogosphere and the economy figured out? And he just hired Dana Perino...

[goodog]

Mark Penn and Dana Perino in the same room?

That a whole lotta potential for disinformation all in one place.

We've reached the critical mass of two people being more wrong than the sum of their lies.

Add Ari Fleisher to the mix, and the room will collapse on a black hole of untruth.

[magnetplanner]

Don't forget Karen Hughes, the WHIG ringleader.

[jeanrenoir]

What a heartening "microtrend"! The disasters of the Boomer generation, the WORST GENERATION, will have to be cleaned up, with the massive aid of the Net, by Gen-X and the Millenials. They crushed the powers that be in the primaries and the general last year with the Net. They constantly out everything with it. They've crushed the control of the American psyche by the MSM media and the incredibly destructive forces that control it--not least the neocons and their financial backers--with it. Onward and upward, bite by bite.

[Diogenis]

I''ll drink to that.

[jerrypl]

I don't believe it!!!!

http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com

[Bedo]

how does one go about getting paid to write a blog. i can write all day along.

[Diogenis]

Good question. I want to know tooooooo

[kid5rivers2]

Simple! Do as I did: find someone, or, sometwo or three, willing to pay. lol Seriously:
http://www.google.tt/search?q=get+paid+to+blog&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

[TJCole]

Mark Penn; at the service of murderers, corporate criminals, and tyrants everywhere­..!