An organization of J-school professors called the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication have issued a 10-point treatise itemizing what bad-bad Leroy Brown ….er, President Bush has done that’s "bad" in regards to freedom of the press.
This is a classic example of pot and kettle.
Here are a couple of issues I take with any pronouncement coming out of organization of j-school professors:
One: Those who can do, those who can’t teach.
Two: The major problem with journalists today is that they go to J-school instead of learning how to report in the field. By and large the ones I’ve met were so far in the ionosphere when it came to reality… remember the scene in the Rodney Dangerfield movie Back to School when businessman and new freshman Thornton Melon (Dangerfield) gives Dr. Phillip Barbay, the business professor (played by Paxton Whitehead) a reality lesson in doing business outside the classroom? Same thing needs to be done in J-schools across the country.
Three: The major problems with J-schools are the professors whose emotional and political development stopped some time around the days when the Baader-Meinhoff, Red Brigade, Symbionese Liberation Army thugs ruled the media and its “social consciousness.” J-school professors’ politics constantly interfere with the dissemination of information — and it’s no wonder that journalists are always presenting opinion as news and/or allowing their own bias to color the reportage. It’s how they were taught.
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