Video: Journalism’s stars of tomorrow drop phat beats on Fox News
posted at 8:18 pm on October 28, 2009 by Allahpundit
In case you ever wondered what an ethics class at Columbia Journalism School was like, wonder no longer. The clip’s been making the rounds, earning special contempt from Greg Gutfeld and Reason Online, but while I’m reluctant to challenge my hipper elders, I confess I feel more sympathy than outrage. Imagine spending tens of thousands of dollars a year on tuition aimed at a career in a dying industry (during a horrible recession, no less) that’s more and more reviled by the public with each passing day. Congratulations to this kid for finding a reason to get out of bed in the morning, let alone construct timeless rhymes like, um, “parity” and “Hannity.” Now go out there and show Roger Ailes who’s boss, tiger. Oh, and try to remember that bit about retracting when you err. For some reason, that one seems to be forgotten after graduation.
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It would be interesting to know where this tool of a teacher was educated…and in what decade.
FYI Allah…this is on topic as -
a)These pipsqueaks rapping today could well become the teacher tools of tomorrow.
2) If you ever have children, you will understand the cold-sweats and panic attacks that sending them to school induces! Just look at these poor pre-lib majors singing for grades…what the hell??
Keep fighting the good fight KWR!
redwhiteblue on October 29, 2009 at 2:32 AM
Lois isn’t very perceptive for a journalist. How many years was she fooled by a freaking pair of glasses?
And Iris isn’t much better. She was actually married to the Flash (aka, the Human Vibrator) and didn’t figure it out until Barry started talking in his sleep.
AaronGuzman on October 29, 2009 at 2:42 AM
Simply wow. I graduated from UMASS Amherst (back in 93) with a BA in Journalism and I had to deal with my fair share of idiots, but nothing like this. I was a reporter for one year (that’s all I could take) and went straight into computers…
Fuzzlenutter on October 29, 2009 at 3:08 AM
At my college, J-school was an embarrassment to the rest of the university. J-school was where you went if you couldn’t pass any of the other courses.
Apparently that hasn’t changed much.
petefrt on October 29, 2009 at 4:42 AM
The guy can’t even memorize his own lyrics. He reads his lyrics off a paper like he will no doubt be reading off a teleprompter or DNC talking points memos. That’s Columbia J-school yo!
Daemonocracy on October 29, 2009 at 4:56 AM
I’m embarrassed for these children. They’ll be on the internet forever, looking like fifth graders.
My dad died and I was the oldest, I had to work full time right out of high school. Evidently I missed out on things like this that would of made me a “better, more well rounded individual”.
Jeff from WI on October 29, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Time for a friendly reminder from Iowahawk on what eventually happens to so many J-school grads.
THIS IS YOUR FUTURE, PUNKS…
Read it and [listen to your parents as they] weep!
;)
Wanderlust on October 29, 2009 at 7:07 AM
why is this even giving these kids any credibility by responding to this or even having it up on this site?
and of all the cheaply produced raps I’ve heard from high school or college students, this isn’t the worst one I’ve ever heard.
Pcoop on October 29, 2009 at 8:11 AM
1. The art of reading is to sound like you’re NOT reading.
2. They paid close attention to Dress for Success
If that slob with his shirt out is going to interview me, I’m glad I won’t get the job.
Mr. Grump on October 29, 2009 at 8:12 AM
well we can at least agree on Cat right?
Ampersand on October 29, 2009 at 8:26 AM
I’ve never been to college and graduated from gubmint schools, but if I was looking for a rhyme with Hannity I’d choose calamity over parity.
Oh yeah, what a bunch of d-bags.
TugboatPhil on October 29, 2009 at 11:12 AM
I can sympathize to a certain extent: I graduated with a Journalism degree in 1983, when the country was still in recession, and even though I was in the top 10% of one of the top 5 J-schools in the country, on graduation my choices ranged from an unpaid internship with the Oak Ridge Dead Mountain Echo or an unpaid stringer assignment with the Salem, Oregon Statesman Journal.
Q: What do you do with a Journalism degree?
A: Go to grad school!
The morons in the video above remind me of a cartoon strip I saw once — I think it might’ve been of the “Dilbert” series — in which as a cost-savings measure company management installed motion-detector light switches in the office. Unfortunately, as all of the employees were sleeping in their cubicles, the lights kept turning off.
The solution: hire someone to run along the aisles between cubicles, flapping his arms, with the cartoon’s last frame reading “… And another Journalism major enters the work force.”
Spurius Ligustinus on October 29, 2009 at 12:48 PM
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