[ExI] what did we learn?

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat


On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 18:27, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Picked on?  I have no heartburn with English majors...
> Any picking on that I do does not apply to English majors, but is sincere ridicule and scorn, specifically aimed at journalism majors. ...
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>...Isn't it a bit unfair to complain about journalists?  For the big media giants surely it is the billionaire owners that direct the agenda of their media? The workers have to support the politics of the owners or they lose their job.
Some journalists can work for lower wages on small independent publications, but for a career, the big media giants have the money and the prospects.



BillK

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Hi BillK, it isn't journalists that I disdain, but rather journalism majors.  

You recall how it was at the U: the fluffy-sluffy majors were out there on the quad partying and messing around, the engineers and STEM people were in their rooms studying.  If they even have anything analogous to that in the UK, good chance the same patterns hold there as it does here.

Journalism is the ultimate party-major.  How hard is it to write an article?  Do people need to study at the university for four years just to write articles?  We should find scientists and STEM people who know how to write, have the media giants hire them to write our news.  I don't want to be informed by yahoos who squandered their university years partying down on the quad.  I want to be informed by people who squandered their university years studying science and technology.

spike