Journalism
What are the prospects for young journalists today?
"One friend says: 'Everyone jokes, covering up real fears about how we'll all be laid off from old-school papers and about how professional online news won't actually take off like we hope it will,'" reports Maegen Carberry in Editor & Publisher (October 23, 2008 1:55 PM ET).
"It was disappointing . . . to hear over and over again that as the economy continues to tank and that reflective (and expensive!) holiday time of year rears its ugly head, we’re all suffering from a feeling of paralysis, unsure of how to grow professionally when we’re anchored by financial realities and legitimate concerns about the substance of our chosen vocation."
Michael Crichton heralded the end 15 years ago, but one young journalism student offers hope with attitude:
"Michael Crichton said in his article Mediasaurus 'what we now understand as the [American] mass media will be gone within ten years. Vanished, without a trace.' It has been 15 . As an aspiring Journalist, I question his predictions and his ideas about Journalism altogether: 'According to recent polls, large segments of the American population think the media is attentive to trivia, and indifferent to what really matters. They also believe that the media does not report the country's problems, but instead is a part of them. Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcisstic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcisstic self-serving politicians who evade them.' I'm already insulted."
"One friend says: 'Everyone jokes, covering up real fears about how we'll all be laid off from old-school papers and about how professional online news won't actually take off like we hope it will,'" reports Maegen Carberry in Editor & Publisher (October 23, 2008 1:55 PM ET).
"It was disappointing . . . to hear over and over again that as the economy continues to tank and that reflective (and expensive!) holiday time of year rears its ugly head, we’re all suffering from a feeling of paralysis, unsure of how to grow professionally when we’re anchored by financial realities and legitimate concerns about the substance of our chosen vocation."
Michael Crichton heralded the end 15 years ago, but one young journalism student offers hope with attitude:
"Michael Crichton said in his article Mediasaurus 'what we now understand as the [American] mass media will be gone within ten years. Vanished, without a trace.' It has been 15 . As an aspiring Journalist, I question his predictions and his ideas about Journalism altogether: 'According to recent polls, large segments of the American population think the media is attentive to trivia, and indifferent to what really matters. They also believe that the media does not report the country's problems, but instead is a part of them. Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcisstic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcisstic self-serving politicians who evade them.' I'm already insulted."
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