Posted on 10/02/2007 8:04:39 PM PDT by Swordmaker
A lecture hall photo taken recently at The Missouri School of Journalism is worth a thousand words:
Click on image to see larger version...
Urggh. Future leftist propaganda spewing spineless newsleeches prefer Macs. How touching.
They’ve already got to you. They’ve got you believing that there is such a thing as unbiased reporting.
There isn’t. I don’t trust any journalist that claims to be unbiased. It’s a lie, and that lie destroys their credibility. I would rather that the reporter be up front and honest with their point of view so I know the filter through which to read the story. Then I can seek out reports from other points of view, and between them I’ll have a much more accurate picture of the real story.
Bias is not merely on how to report, but perhaps more importanly there is bias in ~what~ to report. For every newsworthy thing that gets reported, there are probably dozens of things that go unreported. Picking the most “valuable” is inescapably the product of the values and biases of the reporters and editors.
The profession of journalism could benifit greatly from a careful de-construction and analysis of the reporting on the war in Iraq. From the beginning, the poison was planted.
IMHO Woodward and Berstein badly damaged the practice of journalism. Now everybody wants to be them, and every story is watergate including the ones that aren’t and nobody seems to know the difference.
“Is it real? Or is it Photoshop? I don’t know... But there are schools
were better than 40% of the incoming freshmen are bringing Macs.”
I wouldn’t read too much in it.
(and what follows is a bit tongue-in-cheek)
BUT...maybe the students think a Mac will help turn them into MU
J-School luminaries like Uncle Walter Cronkite or Mao’s good buddy Edgar Snow.
Or maybe one of the emeritus profs will be impressed by their
Mac notebook and get them an internship at Al-Jazeera.
And Allah knows, anybody working in the Middle East will sure find
the Mac graphics capability useful when “fauxtography” is needed.
All this at the J-School that also runs the local NBC affiliate (KOMU),
where the staff was forbidden to wear American flag lapel-pins
during the post 9-11-01 reporting.
But then again, MU J-School did produce Lee Strobel, who recently visited.
(FR thread)
MU emeritus helps train Al-Jazeera staff
Columbia Daily Tribune ^ | 2-12-06 | Terry Ganey
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1577182/posts
(Source Article)
MU emeritus helps train Al-Jazeera staff
By TERRY GANEY of the Tribune’s staff
Published Sunday, February 12, 2006
http://www.showmenews.com/2006/Feb/20060212News009.asp
Edgar Snow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Snow
Lee Strobel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Strobel
You're right... therefore, in the interests of full disclosure, I use a Mac and I am highly biased by my experiences with my Mac and the superior user experience provided by my Mac compared to my years of working with Windows.
It would be interesting if under every writer’s name it said either liberal bastard or conservative prick.
(from the MU J-School FAQ)
“Q. What if I prefer a Windows-based machine?
A. That’s an option, but it’s one we do not recommend unless you plan
to make a career of computer-assisted reporting.”
In the year 2007?
Some journalists are NOT using computers in their reporting?????
Maybe journalism is like the photography field.
I heard an interview with some fellow that does seminars on digital
photography and he’s run his own studio for years.
He told a caller asking about photography schools for her child.
“Whatever you do, don’t send them to Columbia U, where they’ll make
the kid do nothing but film cameras. Every year I turn away potential
interns and employees from places like that because I need someone
good with digital cameras and computers.”
Macs are great machines. And I can see the virus-avoidance issue
as a great concern.
But I think whoever wrote the FAQ needs to proofread it while thinking
what reasonable implications can be drawn from the text.
Full disclosure. Allow candidates unlimited political cash donations but require full disclosure of WHO, HOW MUCH, and WHEN. Kill them if they lie about it... politically. No running for office again, ever.
The information of WHO is willing to put up X dollars at a particular time to a specific politician or cause is information that we can no longer take advantage of in assessing the worthiness of a candidate or sitting politician.
a friend of mine majored in journalism. he partied all week long--no late nighters for him.I attended college in the 70s, and it seemed that everyone partied all week long; I was a journalism major, and didn't party at all. :'( The worst I saw were criminal justice majors. In fact, I think the serial killer caught at that time was a criminal justice major. I wonder if the story inspired the "Dexter" tv series (on Showtime)? :')
LOL! It is the old story.. “when I was young and idealistic I was a liberal.” “When I grew up.....”
“Now bigger papers are sending photographers out with video cameras and
then they take a still from the footage.”
Thanks for that info. It kinda’ tells me I’ve not been crazy in waiting to
either buy a really good digital camera...or go for one of the videocorders,
now that you see ones that offer even 5.1 megapixel stills.
I’ve been dithering about that for a couple of months.
“Every speaker we had though said they had been purely digital for
at least 5 years.”
Recently Newt Gingrich said he was having his photo taken at some event
(in D.C.?)
I can’t remember exactly what Newt said, but I think that after a bunch
of snapshots by one of the press cameramen, he said “Hey, you keep
going, you’re gonna’ run out of film!”
The photographer said “Mr. Gingrich, about the last time I used a film
camera was when you were still Speaker of The House!”
(VOA thinks that means the photographer was out of film and
into digital by 1998)
Hmmmm... this is just an extension of the professional photographer taking hundreds of shots to get the two or three prize winners... now they can do thousands.
This picture shows why AAPL is headed to $200+ plus per share IMO.
I may be behind the curve a bit, but years ago when my mother was teaching in the Boston school system, Apple Computer offered deep discounts to schools to use their computers. I’m not sure where Mac and Apple relate but I would guess that Mac may be following in their footsteps. Thus, if kids are exposed to only Macs at school this may account for the heavy incidence of Mac use.
Someone once said, News is information that someone, somewhere, wants to censor. Everything else is advertising.
Apple is the company that makes the Mac.
The program you are referring to occurred in the 1970s to the 1980s when Apple first gave one Apple II to every school in the US. I think the total was about 30,000 Apple IIs given away. Apple had, and continues to this day, an Educator's Discount program which allows anyone associated with education (including homeschooling) a 5-10% discount on specified Apple products (unfortunately, not the iPhone, drat).
Most of the students you see in the picture would not be those who have been influenced by the program because a 10% discount on a $1000 iBook or iMac or Macbook computer cannot compete with the $500 laptops and $300 desktops available in the low end of the Windows PC world that many schools of the 90s and early 2000s bought looking only at initial cost rather than Total Cost of Ownership. (Macs have consistently turned in lower TCOs than Windows PCs in reputable studies.) Most of these students came from PC using homes since 90% of the world is Windows centric.
This particular school strongly recommends Macs. Others recommend Windows PCs. However, the trend is strongly going Mac...
Apple computers' popularity growing at colleges, universities
Ping
It's a very important profession which the left (communists) realized long ago. If more of those in the media practiced journalism we'd be much better off as a nation.
Most of the big names in media don't practice journalism but propaganda.
So, God bless you and your career choice.
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