Many people who end up in J-School might just as easily have gone to law school. Many were torn between the two. It tends to attract the some kind of personality- and in many ways it’s a similar career: research, investigations, analysis and presentation.

The difference between lawyers and journalists, however, is the way that they have elected to organize their own profession. Journalists end up working as employees for someone else, and are thus forever victims of the vicissitudes of the marketplace and changing technologies. Lawyers, (while it is true some become employees), tend to organize themselves in partnerships…

A Journalism Firm (to craft an interesting idea) would do the same… As a good law firm combines the high paying M&A with the lower paying family practice, so too could a Journalism Firm combine the low paying investigative journalism with the high paying Public Relations.

Bob Dylan has been on his so-called Never Ending Tour since 1988, playing about 100 gigs a year. At this one, he might have been advised to issue the audience with earplugs. Dylan has never exactly been a conventional vocalist but nowadays the husky, broken rasp he emits scarcely counts as singing at all. Crouched over a keyboard in a cowboy hat, Dylan veered back and forth through his legendary oeuvre and rendered it utterly impenetrable. On Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again he barked or yelped every third word, seemingly unable to keep a straight face at his own eccentric enunciation. Just Like A Woman appeared to be the work of a particularly untalented Dylan spoof act, while his grotesque vocal mugging of Simple Twist of Fate almost qualified as a situationist prank. After a mercifully short set, he reappeared to grunt and yodel through Like A Rolling Stone and Forever Young and the crowd streamed away in stunned disbelief. It may just be time for Dylan to abandon his Never Ending Tour and put every one out of their misery.