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May 19, 2006
Schools for Scribblers
Newspapers dwindle, but journalism graduates keep coming. So now what? So this:
"If America's universities were providing students with adequate academic instruction," says the Wall Street Journal, "instead of pumping out degrees in pseudosubjects like 'communications,' then J-schools wouldn't need to adapt at all. They could simply shut down."
Ouch!
I get the local paper here where I live, but it only comes out once a week on Sundays. I get all the local news, sports, and advertizing. I dropped the Detroit papers some years ago and the NYT and the WSJ last year. This freed up an hour or two a day and my son has less stuff to carry out to the recycle bins.
As for the sad, sorry journalism grads? Well if they really love writing they can always blog, eh?
Posted by Ali Massoud at May 19, 2006 10:09 PM
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