[Responsibility2nd]

I'm guessing many journalism majors missed class the day they covered the whole selling your soul to the Devil routine.

[DoughtyOne]

It would be interesting to see the number of grads of any profession, that were sorry for their chosen major.

I suspect 28% isn't all that out of the ordinary...

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[cotton1706]

World not changing fast enough for them??

[thackney]

From what I’ve seen, I wish more than 75% had chosen another career.

[dennisw]

Print journalism paid more. The whole pay scale got beaten down on the shift to the internet. Now most newspapers are websites that also put out a print edition.

Maybe these kids think they will be TV “journalists”. Good luck that field is hyper competitive and you better have good looks

[dennisw]

Print journalism paid more. The whole pay scale got beaten down on the shift to the internet. Now most newspapers are websites that also put out a print edition.

Maybe these kids think they will be TV “journalists”. Good luck that field is hyper competitive and you better have good looks

[fedupjohn]

And 80% of the American people wish they had also.

[Paine in the Neck]

From what I’ve seen of recent journalism grads I don’t think any of them have the intellectual chops to do anything else. Where else are they going to go? There’s already a surfeit of sanctimonious, clueless busybodies out there. Oh, I guess they could all be ObamaCare ‘navigators’ or TSA agents.

[Gen.Blather]

I’d published some very successful articles in the local paper. Because it had no conservative voice, I proposed an editorial page column. The editor was appalled. She told me that only “specially educated” people who were actual employees of the paper could be trusted to write on politics. She implied that only those people understood politics. Then, she showed me an entire wall of file boxes and told me that they’d advertised for a reporter and those were the resumes they’d received from journalism majors...hundreds...at least.

I realized that the nations colleges were turning out hundreds of times the journalists required by the declining dinosaur media. Most of those students will be paying down student loans for decades while working a menial day job. They all wanted to be Woodward and Bernstein, which, judging by the paper’s writing, is a gotcha-style of journalism that creates the impression of a Watergate scandal for every local event regardless of how mundane it is.

[tcrlaf]

If you aren’t gay and promiscuous, there is NO career path for you in National media now.

The best you can hope for if you don’t fit the political correctness profile is running a blog for free, while flipping burgers on the side.

Or, in the case of one former news director that I know, dealing blackjack on a riverboat, and not allowed to get over 29 hours a week due to Obamacare, all while STILL blaming Bush for his misery.

[LucianOfSamasota]

More Than 25% Of Journalism Grads Wish They’d Chosen Another Career

That's amazing! I find myself wishing that more than 25% of journalism grads had chosen another career!

What a coincidence!

[Mouton]

That 25% probably wished they had taken pole dancing.

[Starboard]

Journalism is just a euphanism for studies in liberal propaganda dissemination. Looked at another way, journalism is the marketing of liberal ideology.

[Starboard]

Journalism is just a euphanism for studies in liberal propaganda dissemination. Looked at another way, journalism is the marketing of liberal ideology.

[onedoug]

Fortunately, I got only an AA in journalism, which led to 30 years of accounting in show-biz.

But the greatest experience of my working life - done for next to nothing - has been coaching high school baseball!

[erod]

I was a journalism grad and I realized in the last year of my college career that I didn’t want to be discriminated for my politics in the work place and wanted to make some better coin. I went into marketing and never looked back.