Old School

“Students are no longer going to be educated in the basic function of journalism. I have the sense that they don't have the kind of indignation or spirit that will enable them to survive.

“To be a journalist you have to be tough-skinned and tough-minded, and there’s been a dilution of that kind of doggedness. As a consequence these schools have moved in a direction that is ultimately self-defeating.”

—Melvin Mencher, journalism professor (ret.), in Tony Rogers, “A Teacher From the Old School Worries About the Future of Journalism Education,” ThoughtCo.com, 2017.

 

• Editorial Comment: That’s Old School, all right, Mel. For the New School of Journalism, see Steve Doocey and Sean Hannity.

PeezPix by Ted Pease 

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