I wonder if the professor's rationale excuses what Jayson and Walter engaged in?
Posted on 06/19/2022 8:41:49 AM PDT by Rummyfan
In a long Twitter thread on Thursday, a Marquette University assistant professor of journalism suggested young reporters may fabricate stories because newspaper journalism standards are too high and because minority reporters might feel racism on the job.
“In my few years as a journalism educator, I’ve found that the younglings engage in unethical practices (ie, fabricating quotes, etc.) mostly out of desperation mixed with inexperience,” wrote Dr. Ayleen Cabas-Mijares, who describers herself as a “Critical/Cultural and Feminist Media scholar” in her Twitter biography.
“Their failure to meet standards says as much about the unmanageable pressure they deal with and the little support/guidance they have as their personal shortcomings,” she wrote.
Cabas-Mijares (pictured) was commenting on a recent incident in which USA Today removed 23 articles after the paper found reporter Gabriela Miranda had fabricated quotes and sources.
The Marquette professor acknowledged that Miranda had made “huge, reprehensible mistakes,” but also laid blame at the feet of USA Today for having journalistic standards.
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There are plenty of fiction writers working as ‘urinalists’ already.
“Journalism professor suggests young reporters fabricate stories because of racism, high standards”
We see this with reporting on Ukraine, particularly with the ‘successful evacuation’, by Ukraine, of the Mariupol Steelworks. But many other stories too.
This is EXACTLY why I would FIRE everyone with a ‘Journalism’ (or related) degree, if I controlled a media outlet. These people are FAR WORSE than taking a bunch of plumbers off the street to replace them with.
This perverse woman of course finds a comfortable nest at a Jesuit institution. Silly people who want their kids to get a “Catholic” education are paying her salary.
If it’s OK for minorities to fake journalism, why not fake sciences?
These Jesuit institutions have been fundamentally conflicted for decades. On the one hand, their religious conscience tells them that abortion is murder. On the other hand, their Social Justice Warrior instincts tell them to pick sides with the “progressive” far left in the culture wars and in economic policy. So far, their SJW instincts have won out (with, it seems, surprisingly little internal objection).
“If it’s OK for minorities to fake journalism, why not fake sciences?”
That is what the Woke folk want—an end to Western civilization where basic infrastructure fails and nobody can fix anything—because anyone living outside a primitive tribe is “racist”.
Maybe those who want to just make things up (which seems to be most of them) should apply to The Onion of Babylon Bee.
I wonder if the professor's rationale excuses what Jayson and Walter engaged in?
I wonder how she would react if students fabricated and\or plagiarized (a form of fabrication!) in her class?
*** laid blame at the feet of USA Today for having journalistic standards***
Oh man! Standards? Who needs stinking standards anymore? Why that’s like saying good grammar isn’t important. Let’s dumb everything down.
This professor should be fired, and quickly.
Journalists. For when you can’t actually do or make anything. On the same rung as education and Human Resources degrees.
So has Marquette University fired this reprehensible professorette? I couldn’t find that.
I have always held that journalism degrees are a waste of time. If you want to write, write. Especially in this day and age when anyone can start a blog. If you are good an audience will find you.
I was always jealous of a friend who was a journo major. While I was taking Circuits and Systems, he was reading Raymond Chanlder and Mickey Spillane.... for college credit.
I cannot imagine what it must be like to be so stupid that you don’t even know you’re stupid.
It would be interesting to know what this person’s Masters thesis was. Ditto for the PhD. Something incredibly woke
as a retired journalist, i suggest that these ‘writers’, apply their ‘skills untried’ against the various style manuals, like the associated press, for example.
should they tailor their work to within the various manuals, then they should fimd it easier to have their work accepted.
“...newspaper journalism standards are too high...”
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there.
Sorry chief. No standards are TOO HIGH for journalism. If they are not “too high”, that’s when you start getting into the BS Zones where they start using words like Juneteenth.
So basically this prof is admitting that certain people have a lower IQ and should not have to meet “high” standards?
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