It sounds like he spent his career typing down his thoughts on the issues of the day and handing them off to an editor to publish. He's not in a good place.
There are several good UK writers earning decent money via newspaper readers today - for example Alexander McCall Smith serialises fictional accounts of ordinary lives, Robert Fisk explores international injustice, Luke Johnson muses on small businesses and Jeremy Clarkson rails against what annoys him - and many others.
Unfortunately, there are also many people paid to write for newspapers because previously nobody knew which articles customers read - now that's becoming clear, some people will lose out. Sad, but true.
It's just that technology hasn't made people LIKE THIS obsolete before. At least, not recently. Now we're killing the jobs of people who can write stuff to thousands, if not millions at a time. It's all fair until it's YOUR job, right?