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Great read, Crispin. I went to a very left journalism school and the teachers really didn't teach anything. They just talked about politics and everyone was for Bernie except a couple of girls who liked Hillary because woman. Definitely some poor examples set in the classroom

I didn’t go to journalism school, waste of money to be herded with brown-nose students and condescending teachers. And that was in the 1970s.

Haha sounds about right. It probably hasn't changed much in that regard. One of my teachers thought I had something wrong in my personal life because I didn't engage in her class. in reality, I played pokemon on my computer, blogged and had views no one in the room tolerated

My j school years were similarly wasted. There were so many uninspired/mediocre writers in what was supposedly an "elite" program. They wrote little and read less. It was fascinating. Jobs at low circulation papers (instead of blogs, this was '00) were landed through networking

Oh absolutely, that sounds about right. I went to Emerson which is supposed to be good but it was easier than high school English class and I wasn’t an AP student. It seems like the real world experience is what matters most in journalism and opinion writing and all that