If you don’t like the news… (Scripting News).
I would also say to the assembled educators — you owe it to the next generations, who you serve, to prepare them for the world they will live in as adults, not the world we grew up in. Teach all of them the basics of journalism, no matter what they came to Cal to study. Everyone is now a journalist. You’ll see an explosion in your craft, but it will cease to be a profession.
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Dave returns to a theme he writes about frequently. I think what he says rings true. Why are so many students enrolling in J-School? Maybe they like what they see of online news, of different styles of narrative writing of news, maybe reading all the time online makes them want to write.
