Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Old Implantation Bleeding

SPAIN: The fall of journalism schools and fantasy of objective reporting.

Paul Alonso (Kight Center) for the former journalist and blogger Chris Lynch, journalism schools are drastically reduced in the coming years. Those who will be radically different students and not to focus on creating content and eventually will abandon the "stupid fantasy journalism goal. "

Lynch logic is this: will consolidate an" elite readership ", which will be small in number, money and the only one willing to pay for professional content creators. With an audience so small (and So few jobs as a professional journalist), does it make sense that there are still schools of journalism? According to Lynch, the best content creators do not go to journalism schools and come from other areas of expertise (perhaps it was not so before? ).

This will cause it to crash the fallacy of "objective journalism." Students still have to teach just to call people collect information and make a note with the words "he / she said." Be it text, audio or video, this formula denotes the fallacy that if one can have quotes from two opposite sides and put in a note is being a good journalist. And if very good, even can be called to the TV as an "expert." But the reality is that most journalists are not experts on anything, only report on people who are experts.

The text was completed by Jean Lynch Folkers, dean of the University of North Carolina. For the academic education in journalism is far from perfect, but changes are happening rapidly and the journalism schools are the future.

Source: Journalists in English.
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