The journalists of the future will be even worse than the ones of today…
…if this is any indication.
You might call them Pravda volunteers:
The first sign of cancel culture bubbling up at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication involved Sonya Duhé, whom the university named dean this spring. Her tenure was cut short almost instantly after she published a tweet praying for “the good police officers who keep us safe.”
The protest-allied campus revolted against the incoming dean’s “racist” tweet and provoked a former student to accuse Duhé of committing “four years of microaggressions” against her. Other students would come forward to allege that she had made similar “microaggressive comments” to them.
It wasn’t one week before the Cronkite School revoked its offer and pledged to be more “inclusive” moving forward…
The most recent “cancel” target is Rae’Lee Klein, a young journalist at the Cronkite School’s Blaze Radio. After the police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis., Klein, on her personal Twitter account, linked to a New York Post investigation and wrote: “Please read this article to get the background of Jacob Blake’s warrant. You’ll be quite disgusted.”
Progressive students were apoplectic. The board voted to remove her as station manager, threatened to resign if she did not, and released a statement from “Blaze Radio alumni” condemning her for trying to “dehumanize and insinuate blame on the victims of police violence.”
Luckily, Klein has refused to resign or succumb to this cancel culture flare-up, explaining on-air her decision to push back against “a situation where our opinions and our beliefs are held against us or [are] characteristic of our ability to lead.
Truth is a subversive concept, and must be throttled. No one can afford to find out the truth about Jacob Blake’s offenses, because it might ruin the narrative.
A vocal group of young journalists can dish it out but they can’t take it. They have no tolerance for anything that offends their remarkably tender sensibilities. The hard-boiled reporter has become the leftist crusader with the soft-underbelly. And the administrators have the spines of jellyfish. Or perhaps amoebae.
More about that last point in another post.
The administrators responsible are the Provost, one Mark Searle and the President, Michael Crow. Crow has had some teaching responsibilities in the past, but there’s hardly been a time when he did not have a foot in administration at all the places he’s worked over 40 years. Searle’s a Canadian import who landed in American higher ed administration after a run of years in government positions in Manitoba. The smart money says hollow men.
The fact that ASU’s school of journalism is named for Walter Cronkite tells you all you need to know about the place.
As the saying goes, if you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen. ‘Journalists of future’ will be back in mommy’s basement and wondering why sane people are bored by their cognitive dissonance. The left pushed too hard, they revealed themselves as the enemies of America.
Keep pushing with the blm antifa maniacs, go on I triple dog dare you. “Even a pawn must hold a grudge.” This will not end well… for you. When the center can not hold, millions will step into the breach to defend the Founding. And remember, power flows from the barrel of gun, and you are outnumbered by Patriots.
It gets even worse. Much worse:
https://www.redstate.com/stu-in-sd/2020/09/15/the-adverse-effects-of-obama%e2%80%99s-eo-13583-and-fogo-purge-are-now-obvious/
H/T/ Shippedwrecked Crew twitter feed.
75% of students today would be far better off in trade schools.
Witch hunts, warlock trials, and protests. Diversity [dogma] and exclusion is a progressive condition. Once you go Pro-Choice, selective, opportunistic, politically congruent (“=”), you can’t ever reconcile. #HateLovesAbortion… Cancellation
succumb to this cancel culture flare-up
Social justice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Then there is Sullivan. #PrinciplesMatter
I have lunch weekly with two friends who have been writing for newspapers for years. The three of us, who between us have a couple of op-ed columns published weekly, have been bemoaning for a couple of years now the death of journalism.
In our own small market (two dailies that have now become twice-weeklies) we peddle our opinions for free, and the other two guys complain bitterly about what has become of the press in our area. (And BTW, Carson City, for those of you who don’t know a lot about Nevada is the capital of our state.)
I smile knowingly. I used to get most of my news from newspapers and radio. Now it is from blogs. I don’t have time for what passes as reporting these days, and I am frankly not troubled that our dailies have dwindled so badly. It is what they get for poor reporting, selectively ignoring what should be important local stories, and for gradually replacing local reporting with AP feed.
The other two say “I don’t know if my latest will be published.” I say “I don’t know if I will bother sending my latest to these people who pretend to be journalists.
This is what graduates of the Cronkite School will graduating into. The market is half what it was only 3-4 years ago, and the number of new hires into that market will be infinitessimal. So go ahead and study for a dying profession. It’s kind of like the people at the turn of the previous century who were happy to be hired on as buggy whip apprentices. A decade later they were permanently out of work. The Cronkite crowd will find themselves in the same boat. And I will not be sad.
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Will they lern to cod?
Or just LARP as members of the press for Antifa/BLM?
You really need to put “Rae’Lee Klein” into a search at images.google.com. Amazingly, she’s not a tug boat on two feet, like the lefty cancel culture mutts who plague her.
OM:
Exactly! If Joe Biden thinks coal miners can learn to code, I would hold out hope that journalists can too. But I might be giving them too much credit.
They will be clapping their hands, “going down to the river”, singing give me that old time Rat’s Assed Commie Religion and death to all nonbelievers. Add to that the theme that:
White People got no reason
White People got no reason
White People got not reason
To Live.
The old Randy Newman song about short people that was misunderstood in the olden days is about due for a remake about Blue Eyes and Blonde Hair and all sort of other ‘White People’ stuff. I am thinking and hoping this current woke stuff will backfire on the unreasonable left side people and bite them in the backside.
Sorry, but it is a fact that journalism students are near the bottom of the academic achievement scale.
No, journalism students are incapable of learning to code. Coal miners would code circles around them.
Jahaziel M.: I never google anything, but I do bing things. So I bing’ed her and perceive your truth – there is nothing tugboaty about her. Surprising that a Miss Wyoming goes into radio journalism.
(Your name is pretty remarkable, too. 🙂 )
I very much doubt if they’ll be any journalists in the future, at least not the free rein propagandists we have today.
Freedom of speech is not a license to “fundamentally transform” America through blatant deceit and control of information into a society bereft of liberty.
Jurnolest lern to cod for the shear halibut. AArgh!
Between Obama and Trump there is now a generation of young “journalists” who don’t know how to ask a tough question of someone they like or be fair to someone they don’t.
That won’t end well. Decades of public polling has shown that the American people really don’t have as much love for press freedom as civics teachers pretend. Remove even the pretense of reporters being something other than political activists/corporate lickspittles and the stage is set for something every bad to happen.
Mike
Alternative media, Tim Pool, Andy Ngo, John Solomon, Mollie Hemmingway and others may save the press from fhe Journalists.
Where I went to college the education majors were notorious for being the dumbest kids on campus. We didn’t have a journalism school but it looks like J school majors could give the teacher education majors a run for the money in the dumb butt contest.
“Facts? We don’t got no stinkin’ facts! We don’t need no stinkin’ facts!”
Others may disagree, but I would wager Journalism is the most woke, most vapid and most insufferable degree, that does contain the word “studies” or “theory” in its title, one can get on most college campuses these days
Ray
Where I went to college the education majors were notorious for being the dumbest kids on campus.
No doubt that the average aptitude level for teachers has declined from the days that female college graduates were channeled into nursing and teaching. Nonetheless, for teachers passing the Praxis teacher certification tests, their SAT scores compared to other college graduates are not quite what you claim. The Educational Testing Service’s report, Teacher Quality in a Changing Policy Landscape: Improvements in the Teacher Pool compares the SAT scores of those who passed the Praxis tests for teacher certification with the average SAT scores of other college graduates.
We find from Figure 20 that for all college graduates who took the SAT-Verbal, the average score was 543. Teachers in the following specialties had an average score below the average SAT Verbal of 543: Physical Education, Special Education, and Elementary Education(517). Teachers in the following specialties scored above the average SAT Verbal of 543:Art & Music, Mathematics, Social Studies, Foreign Languages, Science, and English, in order of increasing scores.
Reading from the bar graph, I would estimate that certified English teachers averaged 573 on the SAT-Verbal. No, not top-of-the-line, but far from bottom of the barrel, and above the average college graduate.
We find from Figure 21 that for all college graduates who took the SAT-Math, the average score was 542. Teachers in the following specialties had an average score below the average SAT-Math of 542: Physical Education, Special Education, Elementary Education(510),Art & Music,English, Social Studies, and Foreign Languages, in order of increasing scores. We are not particularly concerned about Math SAT scores for English or Social studies teachers. For teaching specialties where math skills are important, Science (570) and Math ( 595) teachers scored above the 542 SAT-Math that college graduates averaged. (I am estimating from a bar graph) Not bottom-of-the-barrel, but instead above average.
Offhand I don’t know how elementary teacher SAT scores go in a quintile, but they are only 25-30 points below the average. I guess that is higher than bottom quintile, but that is a guess.
Secondary teachers are in the middle, and above average in the SAT scores related to their specialties.
Figures 20 and 21
SAT Verbal Scores by Licensing Area for Those
Passing Praxis Tests (20) and SAT Math Scores by Licensing Area for Those
Passing Praxis Tests (21)
Page 22, for 2002-2005.
“Walter Cronkite said on receiving a global-governance award in 1999: “I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.” ”
His mind was often confused about reality.
“Jurnolest lern to cod for the shear halibut. AArgh!” – om
They could probably find work at Google these days.
This was on PowerLines headlines panel today.
It shows that the J-Schools are only part of the Cancel trend.
In fact, the deference shown to the academic’s temper tantrum does not bode well for her institution.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/lamonby-case-campus-week
Former Loyola University professor and Director of the School of Mass Communications, Dr. Sonya Duhe, has filed a lawsuit against the University to be reinstated to her position. In May, Duhe accepted an offer from Arizona State University to become the Dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Duhe also submitted her letter of resignation to Loyola University.
ASU later terminated Duhe’s contract after accusations were made against her by several former and current Loyola University students citing racial bias by Duhe.
I hope she wins.
Progress.
More like “Back to the Future”. (Let’s hope, against hope, that it’s not “with a vengeance”…)
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/10/suicide-of-the-liberals
H/T Powerline blog