LOOSE ENDS: The demise of the advice column

The demise of newspaper advice columns in the dailies seems to be leading more and more folks to set up shop online to dole out their homegrown expertise on social media.  There is only one problem with this. They not only lack the credentials to professionally counsel anyone about anything, they insist that all others peddling these skills are frauds in some way. There was a time not long ago before the internet became the…