@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.