moutaineer ....It's probably not surprising that when a graduate of that very same college of journalism showed up a few months later to be a reporter at our paper, the first thing we observed was that he didn't know how to write a news story. Didn't know the first thing about going to an event and describing what happened. He didn't even know he was supposed to take notes while he was there.
I am curious, what university are you referring to?
I spent a number of years in media, was a publisher of a small newspaper. I walked into the Editorial Department one day, and two of our reporters were on the floor, and I stopped to speak to them. Both were graduates from Penn State University's School of Journalism, and had been reporters for just over one year. It was 2006-07 timeframe, and I do not recall what was going on at that exact moment, something to do with people flooding into the USA, and they supported the notion of all these people flooding in, and I said sarcastically, 'I guess you two would be perfectly fine with 250,000 refugees coming from Japan in the 19941-45 timeframe?" They both looked at each other, and like stereo said, 'Yeah, what would be wrong with that?'
I walked into my Editor's office, a man who was conservative like me, and I said to him, 'I just had a conversation with your two brilliant reporters standing out there[they were still standing together on the floor and in view from his office], and I tell you now, in no uncertain terms, you are restricted from hiring any further graduates from Penn State. They are graduating idiots!' As I told him the story of what just happened, he was falling on the floor laughing. I told him, believe me, if I could terminate them on the basis of lacking any intelligence, I would.
I doubt they are any more intelligent today than they were then. We are pushing folks through universities with almost no knowledge on anything. This practice will not benefit this nation with passing years.
Getting to Carlson, I find myself agreeing with him on many things, but this is wishful thinking on his part. The idiots of the media are here to stay, and if anyone is going, it will be conservatives like him. Fox News has joined MSM and I have to believe Carlson, Hannity, and Ingraham must suffer from stomach churn to walk into that enterprise with the likes of Donna Brazile, Juan Williams, Maria Harf, and other *sshat liberal whack jobs there on virtually every program. The two that slay me the most are the two baldies, one named Richard and the other's name does not come to mind, but I usually want to reach into my TV and rip their heads off. And Brazile is nauseating. When she appears, I change the channel.
I find myself watching One America News Network more and more. They also cover two or three times as many stories as MSM, which includes Fox News. While OAN has a conservative bent, they do not use their bias to distort the truth of a story.