There is a market for communications majors, though I don't know how it compares to the number of students majoring in communications. Any company of any size will have a corporate communications department (could be one person, could be a few dozen), and media companies tend to hire a lot of them. The history degree would only be viewed as a plus for some small fraction of those jobs, but a second major, like a minor, wouldn't be viewed as a negative.
Continuing the Chad Haag quote that Sniper began, I was bothered by:
"More than 9,000 miles away from Colorado, Haag said, his student loans don’t feel real anymore. “It’s kind of like, if a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it really exist?” he said."
The CNBC article seems to paint Haag as some kind of clever folk hero, but to be clear: Haag is an irresponsible deadbeat.