[motexva]

Ditto. There's never been objective journalism in this country. That was taught to me as I studied for my MA in journalism (University of Missouri 1996) and even before then, in history and polisci class.

The skill of a good journalist, however, is that you do your best to hide your biases and focus on the truth, or at least your perception of the truth. The best journalists in American history did this, indeed, the best journalists in history always have.

Also - broadcast journalism is by and large a joke. It tends not to attract the same intellects and print. Pretty faces, vapid minds. People criticize Jennings because he has no college degree, but they're just news readers. The best of them have no sense of self importance and focus on communicating the news accurately. They're infinitely replaceable. Hopefully that's not your sequence . . .

[rwfromkansas]

How is the University of Missouri? I know it is EXTREMELY LIBERAL in the J department, but did you feel it provides good training? How hard was it to get in?

Just curious. I am currently studying to be a history teacher, but am leaning more and more with each day toward changing my career path.

However, I would wait to get the J aspect at a grad school like Missouri, so I was just wanting your opinion.

[rwfromkansas]

Your point about the broadcast medium attracting many less intelligent people is unfortunately right.

Part of me would like to be different.....actually be a smart broadcast journalist....which is why I am more interested in broadcast currently than print, despite the ability of print to have longer and more detailed stories. I also am interested in broadcast because of a greater sense of immediacy to the news and being able to tell the stories in a visual manner. But by golly, the broadcast medium is often just pretty faces, with some notable exceptions I have met.

[thesummerwind]

Ditto. There's never been objective journalism in this country. That was taught to me as I studied for my MA in journalism (University of Missouri 1996) and even before then, in history and polisci class. The skill of a good journalist, however, is that you do your best to hide your biases

No, the reason for a journalist is to report the news.........as it happened..........period.

[RipSawyer]

There's never been objective journalism in this country.
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I care not to argue this point, let me simply say that it is possible to report facts which can be verified and refrain from reporting unsubstantiated stories, it is possible to proofread, it is possible to check figures against each other to see if they make sense, it is possible to get the names right. All these things are the minimum to be expected and in the instances in which I have been able to check them most news reporting fails to do these things.