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To: mandaladon
I majored in journalism in college, earning a B.S. and M.S.in the university. Although my career path was on the advertising side, I have always taken an interest in watching the news-editorial side of the industry.

This headline is instructive: it mentions 'gun-violence' and buried deep in the story is a sentence that identifies at least one of the shootings as gang-related.

The unapologetic bias in the news business is a genuine tragedy. In my college years, the kids who majored in the news-editorial sequence used to look down their noses at us who were more interested in the commercial side, thinking their motives of 'reporting the truth' were pure as the driven snow.

13 posted on 07/15/2013 11:39:56 AM PDT by patriotsblood
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To: patriotsblood

I’ve hired and worked with a lot of journalist majors over the years, and I agree that it is really hard to find anyone more sanctimonious and more self-righteous than a journalist major.

It’s kind of nice to see that for every time I post a job listing that requires contains considerable writing, I’ll usually get over a thousand applicants from journalist majors that have essentially been flipping burgers since graduating.


19 posted on 07/15/2013 11:50:15 AM PDT by MNDude (The system worked!)
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