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Originally Posted by Emmerich
Right on the money. I see stories about my area of expertise and the media screws it big time, so I can assume they are dumb as rocks on every other subject as well.
In college those who dropped out of engineering went to business school. Those who failed business school went to journalism...
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I graduated summa cum laude with honors from Bucknell University. Never tried business school but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have failed it. Probably could have done OK in engineering, too. Don't get me wrong: Entering this hellpit of an industry was a huge mistake. But I didn't do it because I'm "dumb as rocks." I did it because I loved sports, loved the English language, and thought I'd love journalism. Instead it's torn me to shreds, and one of things that helped was constantly being told how stupid I am, or biased, or conceited, or highbrow.
The industry is failing for a variety of reasons, the main one being, as I see it, a gross failure of management to recognize and adapt to the changing landscape of media. I don't think it's failing because of ignorant writers. From what I hear from old-school veterans of journalism, writers were pretty stupid 50 years ago, too. Readers just had less to compare it to to find out how stupid they were.
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