Gregory's Server@Sheril
I hope to see an instance formed that will only accept account holders that have degrees from accredited schools of journalism or something along those lines.
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@GreenFire George Orwell, Ambrose Bierce, Jacob Riis … never went to University. But they had experienced poverty and so could write about it with insight and empathy. What's a journalism degree worth? My BA is in economics. Maybe reporting that touches on the subject (basically everything) wouldn't be so facile, naive or empty if they'd studied it, or some other social science, rather than the triangle intro paragraph. @Voline @Voline @Voline @GreenFire As someone with a journalism degree and awards, I can confirm that even with that piece of paper the more privileged journalists will then say, "Well, we don't think your journalism school is as good as our journalism schools." We're talking about a First Amendment righ (in the U.S.) here. Barriers to entry are just that: Barriers. One of the most successful mainstream journalists I know quit college a semester before graduating. Burn your barriers. Would we have had 60 years of reporters treating the assertions of policemen as gospel if they weren't candy asses who went from suburban high school to college to newsroom? I doubt it. @Voline I would have more faith in the ability of J-school graduates to evaluate evidence if thousands of them hadn’t tried to sell the public absolutely transparent lies about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction and relations with Al Queda. Not all. The McClatchy newspapers were conspicuous in the skepticism and quality of their coverage of the drive to war. The fact that they were able to present so much evidence contrary to the Bushites assertions, evidence that was excluded from the majority of respectable news outlets, gives the lie to the excuse that the poor reporters were taken in by the security state. They were either fools, incompetents, or opportunists none of which speaks well of the value of J-school training. @GreenFire @K8TDidToo I mean it wouldn't engender my confidence if the same instance hosts Dan Rather along with Alex Jones for instance but it trickles down to the intern level too. idk @GreenFire @Sheril There’s suggestions out there that media platforms could start their own instances and have all their journos on that instance as a way of verifying identity. I like that myself.  @GreenFire @Sheril Spoken like someone who has never worked in the business. Some of the best journalists I've ever worked with -- and a whole lot who have risen high in the ranks -- never went to j-school. Some of my esteemed former colleagues were liberal-arts majors, as well as a math major, a botany major, a pharmacist, and a guy who worked for years on a fishing boat in Alaska and never went to college. |
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I hope to see journalism have more voices who never went to college at all. The profession is entirely too bourgeois.