&gt;<i>If there is research involved, each sentence or paragraph could easily take an entire day. E.g. a couple years ago I wrote a post about deaths caused by drug use&#x2F;misuse, and just getting an idea of how many deaths are caused by smoking involved reading through several chapters of the Surgeon General&#x27;s most-recent 800 page report.</i><p>Journalists for established media do all that (and more) as part of getting the facts for their articles, and still take in something like $2-$3 per month or less.