media - Most reporters hate their jobs

The conclusion of a survey by recruiting site Zhaopin.com, here quoted by Xinhua, is not that surprising when you talk regularly to Chinese journalists. It is also not surprising the state news agency only mentions poor wages as an argument for their unhappiness. Sixty percent claims to have a salary of 3,000 renminbi (USD 370) per month, but that sounds pretty low, even for an occupation that faces too many graduates.
According to my information (but that is based on journalists working in Shanghai), start salary is around 4,000 renminbi.
Of course they could not mention that other reason for journalists to leave their positions: they cannot do their work as journalists, because of the political control. Even for the most harmless subjects most papers perfer to take Xinhua dispatches, so they can avoid any kind of problem. That does not produce very interesting media.