Hsiao Chien and Lu Keng's examples show that when there was nothing else, choosing journalism offered them a stage on which they could perform. New York Times humorist Russell Baker once wrote self-mockingly that in 1947 (when he joined the paper) journalists were losers.
蕭乾和陸鏗的例子說明：走投無路時，投奔新聞的道路，未始沒有一片馳騁的天地。在彼方，「紐約時報」幽默專欄作家 RusselI Baker 調侃自己說：「一九四七年（入行時），做報紙的準輸定。