Comments on: Can Journalism Schools Be Relevant in a World on the Brink? http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/09/can-journalism-schools-be-relevant-in-a-world-on-the-brink/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: mary http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/09/can-journalism-schools-be-relevant-in-a-world-on-the-brink/#comment-54736 mary Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:31:59 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=10486#comment-54736 'Then in middle age I joined the straight world and worked at mainstream writing and publishing jobs -- newspapers and magazines -- horrible lying pieces of shit that help drive the empire's worst aspects.' From the great Joe Bageant. http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2009/09/half-measures.html#more ‘Then in middle age I joined the straight world and worked at mainstream writing and publishing jobs — newspapers and magazines — horrible lying pieces of shit that help drive the empire’s worst aspects.’

From the great Joe Bageant.

http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2009/09/half-measures.html#more

]]> By: kalidas http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/09/can-journalism-schools-be-relevant-in-a-world-on-the-brink/#comment-54676 kalidas Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:58:02 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=10486#comment-54676 “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.” Oscar Wilde “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.”

Oscar Wilde

]]> By: Rick http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/09/can-journalism-schools-be-relevant-in-a-world-on-the-brink/#comment-54636 Rick Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:30:58 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=10486#comment-54636 I'm against journalism departments and degrees institutions of higher learning. They don't have them in Britain so why do we waste our time having them here? Because the newspaper industry in the U.S. created them roughly a century ago, or at about the time that most cities in the country started becoming one newspaper towns. They were created to "train" (i.e. indoctrinate students into the corporate way of doing journalism) students to be employees of mainstream newspapers, which were mostly local monopolies by the time journalism schools were established. Prior to the 20th century this country had a stridently partisan press. Newspaper were set up either to support the cause of a political party or a specific issue, like abolition. It was when local newspapers became monopolies that they started to pretend to be "objective" and insist that their employees have college degrees. Journalism schools were the worst thing to happen to journalism in the history of this nation. Get rid of them. I don't have a problem with journalism classes as electives run through a school newspaper, but there is no need for journalism departments and degrees. I’m against journalism departments and degrees institutions of higher learning. They don’t have them in Britain so why do we waste our time having them here? Because the newspaper industry in the U.S. created them roughly a century ago, or at about the time that most cities in the country started becoming one newspaper towns. They were created to “train” (i.e. indoctrinate students into the corporate way of doing journalism) students to be employees of mainstream newspapers, which were mostly local monopolies by the time journalism schools were established. Prior to the 20th century this country had a stridently partisan press. Newspaper were set up either to support the cause of a political party or a specific issue, like abolition. It was when local newspapers became monopolies that they started to pretend to be “objective” and insist that their employees have college degrees. Journalism schools were the worst thing to happen to journalism in the history of this nation. Get rid of them.

I don’t have a problem with journalism classes as electives run through a school newspaper, but there is no need for journalism departments and degrees.

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