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1. Comment - Geeks vs. journalists: A tale of two worldviews

   (Jul 6, 2009 - 7:42 PM)

   God, this is dead true! The description of college-educated journalists hits the nail on the head! I started at the time Watergate was sending tens of thousands of deluded kids to J School with dreams of being investigative reporters -- at a time (the 1970s) when there weren't a thousand journalism jobs opening up in any given year -- including obit writers for regional papers.
   
   In that flood, my three years of hands-on journalism experience couldn't compete with college grads who had been editor-in-chiefs of the Stanford school paper. But when I hired new reporters, the last in line were J-school kids, because they had learned how to be EIC of their paper--not to be reporters. I hired poly-sci majors, and art-history majors, because they read things, and they knew they were starting out.
   
   What a world. Best analysis of the disaster in journalism I've read.