Comments on: Journalistic Sins Of Omission Or Commission? Smells Like Tea Spirit

By: Rayne

Rayne — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:12:48 +0000

Oh man, klynn. The attitude of those schools has been part of the slow death of journalism.

The best journalist I know and have worked with has a degree in international communications — not a J-school grad at all.

There’s also no way to teach people how to have a “nose” — you know, the innate bullshit detector really great journalists have. I’ve worked with reporters who’ve been J-school grads, got good grades, can write anything at the drop of a hat, but they don’t have the “nose.” And J-school can’t grade for that.

You should give it a shot and just do it, skip the education; you can develop your own cred and be contributor, just follow the SPJ ethics as you do your work so that your product is unimpeachable. If you follow Jay Rosen’s tweets, you’ll soon realize that journalists these days and the commercial outlets which hire them are sadly lacking in abilities average citizen journos may already have in spades.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:06:31 +0000

OMG. He did the right thing taking the remote away, dear, it was in your best interest.

Nobody really misses Malkin.

Nobody.

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:58:09 +0000

Dr. Crowly was a Nixon person (I think she did her Phd at the Nixon library while working for Nixon) She was on MSNBC a few years ago and I think now has a radio show. She is on some PBS show on friday night where everybody shouts at each other.

By: klynn

klynn — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:31:47 +0000

Christy,

You’ll love this. The Columbus, Ohio organizer is Justin Higgins who I think writes regularly for the AIP (AmericanIssuesProject).

Enjoy reading this and this.

By: Christy Hardin Smith

Christy Hardin Smith — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:11:30 +0000

And I’m talking about the Rebecca Wales woman here — the one who writes with Liberty Belle at Smart Girl Politics — not the two others who also helped organize there.

By: Christy Hardin Smith

Christy Hardin Smith — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:05:36 +0000

The one in DC is connected to Odom, I’m pretty sure — but I haven’t nailed it down yet.

By: klynn

klynn — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:05:05 +0000

Oxdown that!

I bet Jane would front-page that!

By: klynn

klynn — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:04:17 +0000

“c’mon dude, that’s cold, I’m gonna miss Malkin !!”

ROTFL!!!

Just the image of mr. cbl and cbl2 wrestling the remote over Malkin sounds like a SNL skit!

By: cbl2

cbl2 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:03:36 +0000

oh and p.s.

from a bit of anecdotal googling - several of the “organizers” I checked in to yesterday had some kind of ‘web set up and design’ in their backgrounds

Sacramento, two of the Texans, Chicago, Philly, and several more

By: cbl2

cbl2 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:59:13 +0000

How is everyone this morning?

after all of yesterday’s snark - like the Peanut the day after halloween

thank dog for the interwebs !- mr cbl wrested the clicker from my cold dead hand and cut me off of FNC around 4 pm yesterday

“c’mon dude, that’s cold, I’m gonna miss Malkin !!”