Posted on 03/17/2008 5:55:00 AM PDT by gartrell bibberts
RALEIGH — As I looked out on a sea of shining faces at the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication on Tuesday, I couldn’t help thinking to myself: “Man, I’d hate to be you guys.”
My, how things have changed since I was in journalism school (early ‘70s). Back then, there was a job waiting for everyone,....
It all changed in the mid-1990s with the arrival of the Internet. Editors and publishers whistled past the graveyard for many years, assuming that people would always desire good editors to help them sort through all that confusing stuff on the Internet. Boy, how wrong was that!
(Excerpt) Read more at carolinajournal.com ...
Print journalism has gone the way of the buggy whip.
“As I looked out on a sea of shining faces at the University of North Carolina School of Candlemaking on Tuesday, I couldn’t help thinking to myself: “Man, I’d hate to be you guys.”
My, how things have changed since I was in candlemaking school. Back then, there was a job waiting for everyone,....
It all changed in the late-1870s with the arrival of the light bulb.”
Same diff.
McDonald’s?
Not as wrong as he thinks. People still want good editors. It's just that they don't find them at far-left newspapers.
Yes, how things have changed in journalism school. The sad fact is that journalism schools and their journalism majors have long since ceased to teach journalism and their students become journalists. These so called Journalism schools are now Centers of Political Advocacy-of the Leftist/Socialist persuasion. Consequently, I suppose that there will continue to be employment opportunities for these sort of people within mainstream media (aka leftist) organizations and associated political organizations. But, then again, who cares? I certainly don't...
They go to school to learn to write that tripe?
The utterly stupid female affirmative action hires at the local rag always amuse me. I fully expect to read copy like:
See Spot.
See Spot run.
Run, Spot, run!
And I am never disappointed.
There was a post here - yesterday I think - about how thoses multi volume encyclopedias are also going TANGO UNIFORM. Everything you can know is close to free via the web.
“TANGO UNIFORM”
LOL - love it.
Redrum dot com dim sum smart bombs
Double cappuccino and a heart like a tom tom
Ozone long gone that’s it I quit
Natural inclination says enough of this
brat pack black jack heart attack crack
We need another news channel like a hole in the back
There’s a 187 on the 405
And we all go to heaven on a hard disk drive
Fate’s right hand.....I don’t understand at all
Probably replaced by schools of “Mass Communications” ....same BS different label.
Simply an old AF expression... I usually don’t bother with the acronym because anyone never in the military probably doesn’t understand the phonetic alphabet to begin with. Then I am given the opportunity to explain that “Tits Up” relates to a really bad way to land your airplane: with the wheels (tits) in the air...
Not as wrong as he thinks. People still want good editors. It's just that they don't find them at far-left newspapers.
You're right. Even the Internet could use some REAL editing, separating the junk from fact. I suppose it will evolve to something like that...
OK the slow demise of print journalism breaks liberals’ death grip on that monster.
Now, let’s slay the next:
Eliminate tenure at all, public universities and schools.
Let teachers demonstrate their worth each day at work, just like everyone else must.
What passes for “journalism” today is so biased, and those who work in the field so unconcerned with balance - journlism ethics would seem to suggest the coursework might have a future in the School of Business Administration.
“Marketing 101”.
As to the article, colleges have been closing journalism schools for quite a while. Although print media is dying to some extent, there are probably more magazines being published now than ever before. They're simply niche magazines. What is dying is the daily paper that dominated a city. Also, there is no equivalent to the photo magazines like Life or Look.
There are still plenty of options.
Journalism has always been biased, thank Heavens. That's its essence. The thing that's happened in the past 50 years or so is that the means of communication have been co-opted by one point of view -- the Left's. That was made possible mainly by TV, probably the most powerful means of political indoctrination ever invented.
But the process was well underway in pre-TV days as the Left began its long march through the institutions, including schools of journalism, weekly news magazines and the print media in general. When TV came along, Leftists immediately saw its political potential. They created powerful sinecures for themselves in publicly-funded TV, a socialist paradise, and moved to dominate the media in general, producing brainwashed J-School graduates to fill the jobs.
As we know the internet has upset their single-voiced power base. Briefly, at least, in its unregulated state it has given us an era similar to the time of Ben Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac" and other partisan broadsheets, where all points of view clashed for the public's attention. That was the "free press" the Founders had in mind.
As for what the schools of journalism will do when newspapers fall, the answer is obvious. Leftist "journalists" and political operatives are already working with Democrat cohorts in Congress to limit free speech. Their first major goal is the misnamed "Fairness Doctrine" to stifle conservative talk radio. Then they'll tackle free expression on the internet, using the power of government regulation. You can be sure future censoring legislation will carry feel-good names just the opposite of their repressive intentions. Like "Fairness Doctrine," for starters.
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