I knew this fact in college. I worked on the paper awhile in college as I had 4 years on my high school paper. In college I had some friends who were journalism majors and they always complained about how hard it was to write 3-4 page papers on something. These were people who started partying hard on Thursday night.
As an engineering major and an honors program student, they had no idea of what hard assignments were. They saw me studying all the time. Saying “I could never do that.”
I know what the hierarchy is in the various schools of education. Journalists were the bottom or second to last. At least in my day before the really worthless artificial programs were created. Feminist studies, queer studies, that kind of garbage that qualify you for nothing pratical or real.
I had the same experience in college as an engineering student. I took their upper-division (300 and 400-series) journalism classes as general ed. One time, my family fell on some hard times and I attended two funerals in the same week. I came back Friday completely forgetting that there was a test in my journalism class. I walked into that test totally cold and scored a 94% on it. That should tell you how frickin’ easy a major in journalism is. If you can’t get a degree in journalism, how the hell did you make it out of 7th grade?
Journalism majors are flunked-out English majors.
Don't leave out Party Planning - - another fashionable major.