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J-students don’t read newspapers
And are we surprised? A brief posting by British J-techer Roy Greenslade shows they think they’ll work in print but they don’t read it. So, where do they get their news?
[node:ad]And are we surprised? A brief posting by British J-techer Roy Greenslade shows they think they’ll work in print but they don’t read it. So, where do they get their news?
Dale Bass
October 12, 2010
In my experience they don’t
In my experience they don’t get the news; News is too inert. They get points of view, information that’s already passed through that immense filtration/processing/pasteurizing machine that is the Internet.
Of course, they can argue, with some justification, that the daily newspaper that our fathers read is already dead. Witness the “new” Globe: Is it a daily newspaper, or has it morphed into a colorful daily POV?
October 13, 2010
Gee, when I was teaching
Gee, when I was teaching j-school at Rye (pre-2000), we either had to beg students to read the papers or force them to read the papers via tests and assignments. Nothing new here, fellas.
October 14, 2010
When I was in J-school (and
When I was in J-school (and we’re talking way back when UWO had an undergrad program, we all read the newspaper but, you’re right, there wasn’t much else to choose from. I guess I was intrigued by the fact they don’t really engage the part of the industry they see themselves eventually joining.
And don’t get me started on the Globe. It seems so format-driven that I’ve almost given up reading it.
Which makes me a lot like those J-students now, I guess.
October 19, 2010
As a journalism student at
As a journalism student at UWO (long after the undergrad program was eliminated), I never failed to take advantage of the complimentary copies of the Globe and Mail provided for j-schoolers – and I wasn’t the only one. Of course, I had some classmates whose fingers were never dirtied by news ink, but that doesn’t mean nobody read the paper.