@GreenFire Not remotely comparable. Piloting is a highly...

@GreenFire
Not remotely comparable. Piloting is a highly technical job.

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.

Like 7 Nov 2022 at 2:16 | Wall-to-wall | Open on anticapitalist.party

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KBLeecaster ✅

@Voline
Alex Jones and Joe Rogan certainly have managed to get a lot of attention without journalism degrees so I don't see the problem that you seem to that there are not enough voices from outside perspectives, but whatever. Best of luck on your endeavors I reckon.

7 Nov 2022 at 2:22 | Open on climatejustice.social

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@Voline
No. It's not equivalent but it's not irrelevant. A journalism degree is worth quite lot as we can see by imlact of media overrun by untrained "journalists" Newspapers have been laying off their reporters right and left since the '80s and most have gone out of business. A lot of the "reporter" on TV and online have general communications degrees at best valued for their ability to entertain

7 Nov 2022 at 3:59 | Open on ioc.exchange

Rigantona

@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.

7 Nov 2022 at 13:29 | Open on toot.wales