Gregory's Server@GreenFire @Sheril
I hope to see journalism have more voices who never went to college at all. The profession is entirely too bourgeois.
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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. |
@Voline @Sheril
I hope to see more airline pilots with no training nor experience flying commercial passenger planes too, but that doesn't mean that's necessarily a good thing.