[holymoly]

More than half of students at four-year colleges in the United States - and at least 75 percent at two-year colleges - lack the literacy to handle complex, real-life tasks

Not to worry, they can always get a job as a "journalist" with the Associated Press.

[hinckley buzzard]

Not to worry, they can always get a job as a "journalist" with the Associated Press.

Not long ago, I read a news article in which a paragraph ended with, "...or whatever."

I'd like to say it was some leftwing rag like the NY Slimes, but it wasn't. It was in the Wall Street Journal. This is why I maintain that "journalism" is not the name of a profession or even an occupation, but simply an activity-- an activity, apparently, which requires no particular training or skill.