[ExI] what did we learn?

[William Flynn Wallace]

I am giving theconversation.com a try.  Maybe you should.   bill w

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 1:41 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 18:27, spike jones via extropy-chat <
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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.
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> Hi BillK, it isn't journalists that I disdain, but rather journalism
> majors.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> spike
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