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“Nobody phones the paper expecting to find a hero anymore,” according to the current New York Review of Books essay “Goodbye to Newspapers.”

And yesterday’s Harris Poll seconds that notion, as Editor and Publisher points out:

Hang down your head, journalist -- your fellow Americans don't think your career is much to be proud of.

The annual Harris Poll measuring public perceptions of 23 professions and occupations came out Wednesday -- and you can find journalists in the Bottom Ten.

It’s conventional wisdom, of course, that journalism has truly taken a beating in terms of esteem and prestige in recent years. Journalists take a back seat to used car salesmen and ambulance-chasing lawyers nowadays, prompting a sigh from the ink-stained crowd as they order another brew and talk about the Good Ol’ Days.

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