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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Maroons on parade, and actually proud of being complete tools.
bbz123 on October 28, 2009 at 8:21 PM
What in the hell?
tetriskid on October 28, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Ick. I’m embarrassed for them, couldn’t watch the whole thing. Honestly these kids seem more like high-school students than college age.
4shoes on October 28, 2009 at 8:22 PM
With only a few exceptions, white people shouldn’t rap.
These people are not exceptions.
notropis on October 28, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Allah: I concur. Momas don’t let your babies grow up to be Columbia-tuition-sucking-Fox-hating-J-School-tone-deaf-wanna-be-rappers.
clorensen on October 28, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Wait, wait, wait. A Journalist’s Oath? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH.
Oaths are taken by good men and women of integrity and courage that bound them to an ideal higher than themselves.
Politicians and Wise Latina Women excluded, obviously.
Blarg the Destroyer on October 28, 2009 at 8:26 PM
I wonder how many of these little trainee journalist retards will end up working for News Corp at some stage in their insignificant careers? especially when you consider that all of the suitably progressive media organisations that these future Democrat party propagandists would like to work for are all going out of business and laying off staff left right and center.
Hellrider on October 28, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Heh.
Weight of Glory on October 28, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Oops. For a minute there, I read that as “little trannie journalist retards.”
Thought you had an inside scoop on some of the participants….
notropis on October 28, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Now you know why you read and see what you do in the mainstream media. These are the kind of kids behind the scenes. Each one coming from moneyed parents to boot. That kind of tuition is only for the privileged liberal class.
keep the change on October 28, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Ugh. Columbia’s J-school, or NYU’s school of the arts? I really can’t decide who has more faux-hipster douches.
Pasalubong on October 28, 2009 at 8:30 PM
They seem really intelligent and having a grasp of the real world.
I bet they must be liberals and progressives…the kinda of guys you want at your side in a fight.
Itchee Dryback on October 28, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Perfect fit, for these misfits.
jaime on October 28, 2009 at 8:30 PM
O/T: CNN reports – FBI Agent shoots imam at islamic center in Michigan!
Tony737 on October 28, 2009 at 8:31 PM
You can almost SEE the tingle going up their legs!
Star20 on October 28, 2009 at 8:32 PM
that would be an elite school.
rob verdi on October 28, 2009 at 8:34 PM
A better title for the video “The Lessons I Learned from Dan Rather at J School”.
dddave on October 28, 2009 at 8:34 PM
“Hey Dad, look how I’m spending your $20k per year payment for my tuition. Get my old bedroom fixed up for me after I graduate.”
Bishop on October 28, 2009 at 8:35 PM
here’s an update on the ongoing “saga” at my son’s High School. A letter was sent to the principal regarding the constant airing of MSNBC during classroom hours, which is disruptive to the students. This is not a political science class. The principal had a talk with the teacher and now the television is turned off during class hours.
Yesterday, the students were informed that anytime one makes an error it should be referred to as a “Bushism”. Several students asked this tool/teacher what a Bush-um was, because they had never heard of such a term. The “teacher” simply replied, “Anything you say or do that is wrong is considered a Bushism”.
Since the principal advised me via email that further issues regarding this teacher be directed to her personally vs. through his office, my next step is the County School Board.
I will have this tool removed by the end of the school year, if not by the end of this semester.
Key West Reader on October 28, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Keep it up!
And you should really think of running for school board, yourself. That’s the only hope we have of fixing our schools.
notropis on October 28, 2009 at 8:39 PM
What? No references to “corporate water” or consensus?
patriette on October 28, 2009 at 8:41 PM
The saddest part about this clip? The Columbia Journalism School is a postgraduate institution.
Slublog on October 28, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Best of luck. Hope your child has a cushion on grades.
clorensen on October 28, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Sigh. I still love journalism but I regret getting a journalism degree. However, I hope to start a news blog some time in the future. So maybe my training will come in use.
/crying
terryannonline on October 28, 2009 at 8:42 PM
More power to you. Make a stink. Remember, our society is predicated upon the squeaky wheel paradigm. Complain loudly enough, and it is easier for those in power to grease you than listen to you complain. Most people take the path of least resistance.
keep the change on October 28, 2009 at 8:43 PM
You go, Key West Reader!!! WTG!!! This woman is into indoctrination and not education.
SilentWatcher on October 28, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Question Authority… unless your Authority is in power.
Then lick its spittle.
Slowly and lovingly.
Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiick!
profitsbeard on October 28, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Have you spoken to the teacher?
terryannonline on October 28, 2009 at 8:44 PM
He does, and he’s not alone. 12 Parents have noticed that their honor students and advanced honor students are earning “C” grades from Miss Honohan. Trust me, I’m not alone in this and thought carefully about how to address the situation.
Side note: A heck of a lot of HS kids are NOT for Obama. They see their parents losing jobs and now even the kids can’t get jobs at the mall or at Mc Donalds or Burger King. They want to earn money to save and buy cars and they can’t. Hopenchange fevah is breaking amongst the young.
Key West Reader on October 28, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Stay on topic, please.
Allahpundit on October 28, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Mmmm mmmm, mmmm….
vcferlita on October 28, 2009 at 8:45 PM
I’m disappointed. I thought the kid was going to really go off on FNC, but he only dropped one line, while also mentioning Blair and some other cat I don’t recall.
Are they “progressives” likely to turn out more of the same slanted journalism w/out even knowing it? Yeah, if they can get jobs.
In closing: Meh
toliver on October 28, 2009 at 8:46 PM
I kinda liked it…
… Let the kids have fun, for Pete’s sake. Anyone who has been indoctrinated by the Liberal Marxist/Socialist Fascist/Communist who run our education system and still has a sense of humor is OK by me.
Soon, they will find out what it means to get a job and pay taxes…
… I am sure they will write another song about that.
Seven Percent Solution on October 28, 2009 at 8:47 PM
I have a feeling you will get the job done. Good for you!
yoda on October 28, 2009 at 8:48 PM
My name’s Bob Woodward and I’m here to say
Breakin’ into the Watergate ain’t okay!
Jim Treacher on October 28, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Rapping?
profitsbeard on October 28, 2009 at 8:51 PM
what are the chances that any of the fu#k stains would actually pass up a job at FOX if they were offered?
I’m sorry, but 9 times out of 10 college makes kids more stupid.
Ampersand on October 28, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Want to see the future of journalism you Columbia numskulls? Just check out Giles and O’Keefe at work while you make bad rap videos. Idiots.
Orange Doorhinge on October 28, 2009 at 8:52 PM
LMAO!
Key West Reader on October 28, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Apparently, because it’s obviously not sucky lefty schools who indoctrinate their students.
notropis on October 28, 2009 at 8:56 PM
I wonder if these prospective “journalists” will attain the coveted “Barak Seal of Approval” as a “legitimate news source”?
DeathB4Tyranny on October 28, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Ha ha
too funny
nyx on October 28, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Adding to song:
Instead of reporting the facts I think my job is to advocate social change.
Ever why our profession has no credibiliy? I’m to blame.
terryannonline on October 28, 2009 at 8:58 PM
You’re hired! Now when you’re finished with the lawn get busy on those hedges.
Dollayo on October 28, 2009 at 8:58 PM
I wonder what grade did they get? Would have been better if he memorized the rap. Maybe the news will be sung on the air when they take over someday?
WyoMike on October 28, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Bunch ‘a maroons.
HAnthonyWayne on October 28, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Actually journalism is not dying as bad as one would think as they are just moving to the internet. Readership of the NYT is still high but people just don’t buy the actual hard copy like they use to. On line advertising fees are lower thus cuts have been made.
CWforFreedom on October 28, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Good question! And what about “fake but true“?
peski on October 28, 2009 at 9:02 PM
How do you make any money in journalism today? Answer – By teaching people how to be journalists.
The journalists themselves are just hobbyists who do it for free cause the love it. LOL.
ray on October 28, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Key West Reader – Light’er up! Nice work.
ray on October 28, 2009 at 9:06 PM
classic.
tetriskid on October 28, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Get a hair cut and a job kid.
dont taze me bro on October 28, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Second look at abortion on demand, up to the age they finally move out at…
Fortunata on October 28, 2009 at 9:10 PM
This type of BS happens all the time in undergrad.
At my undergrad, I had an environmental policy class on energy policy in the U.S. It was full of a lot of “Wind Energy” pimpage, and our midterm project was to do a presentation on a specific domestic energy source, but to do it as “a lobbyist” for that energy sector.
A lot of the kids (libs) chose wind, solar, geothermal — crap like that. I chose nuclear.
Their presentations? Abysmal Wikipedia-style powerpoint “read every slide” crap. What did I do? I gave the professor what he wanted: I spoke like a “Republican.”
“Nuclear energy is clean, green, and safe! Oh, Chernobyl? That’s 1980′s Russian technology. Would you pop your PlayStation 2 disc into an original Nintendo? Nah! We have the best engineers on this planet, and American ingenuity will ensure this high-output fuel source can energize this nation!”
Needless to say, I got an A+, and was told in my feedback I was the only one who followed the project as assigned.
That’s all undergrad is: politicking by pleasing the Prof. And they always do sh*t projects like this “rap” above. College is an absolute joke.
lansing quaker on October 28, 2009 at 9:11 PM
facepalm.jpg
liquidflorian on October 28, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Good lord this society is sick, sick, sick.
rplat on October 28, 2009 at 9:11 PM
SouthernGent in da hoooouuuuse
I ain’t no mouse
I didn’t take no journalism class
Barack Hussein Obama can kiss my ass.
SouthernGent on October 28, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Actually, I thought he was kinda cute.
The Ugly American on October 28, 2009 at 9:12 PM
So, if I go to journalism school, I can learn how to rap?
I have to wonder what Hendrix or Morrison would call these children or the corn attempting to procure their trade.
Rovin on October 28, 2009 at 9:14 PM
stupid
deedtrader on October 28, 2009 at 9:15 PM
I went to J-school….
… Do you want fries with that?
Seven Percent Solution on October 28, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Cute. Speaking of which, have you gotten around to “retracting” the bogus headline you ran earlier this week regarding “Obama’s college thesis”?
If you guys wanna critique the big boy media, you can’t have lower standards then they do now can you?
crr6 on October 28, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Looked for the posting you are referring to. I can’t find it.
terryannonline on October 28, 2009 at 9:26 PM
he may not have written it, but we know he thinks it
runner on October 28, 2009 at 9:31 PM
A white fan of old school hip-hop, new jack swing, house music and the like, and those were definately NOT phat beats. That was sad and painful to watch and I mourn my cogenerationalists who think that was cool or thought the dig at Fox was edgy.
thebrokenrattle on October 28, 2009 at 9:32 PM
I expect no less from Columbia.
ultracon on October 28, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Agreed! That’s the difference, two kids actually exposing corruption, versus spoiled little east coast Ivy league style brats doing nothing REAL.
Jeff from WI on October 28, 2009 at 9:32 PM
I must have missed that Hot Air posting. Link please?
BTW, I e-mailed Ed as soon as that doofus poster started hawking the link — “It’s bogus,” I said. “Can you ban the troll? This isn’t the first hoax he/she’s hawked.”
That “gotcha” didn’t go too far (although I was very surprised that Michael Ledeen apparently fell for it.)
notropis on October 28, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Here.
crr6 on October 28, 2009 at 9:36 PM
And this is exactly why when you guys attempt to critique the MSM for bias and inaccuracy it’s beyond hilarious.
crr6 on October 28, 2009 at 9:38 PM
You’re right.
Can’t say I didn’t warn ‘em, ’cause I sure as hell did.
notropis on October 28, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Dude. That post was a riff on the crap your side is always saying about Limbaugh, or Bush, or whoever. (“fake but accurate”)
Not surprised you didn’t get it.
notropis on October 28, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Bet you just went nuts over Dan Rather and Bush’s military service.
/
CWforFreedom on October 28, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Lower standards? Not possible.
Oh, and regarding the post… isn’t this “news” a couple of days old already?
malclave on October 28, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Interesting there CRR that you could still find the link. Too bad HA has not taken Obama’s lead and scrubbed it.
CWforFreedom on October 28, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Don’t tell people what to do, you toilet-cruising troll.
Janos Hunyadi on October 28, 2009 at 9:52 PM
the Wisdom of crap6:
Janos Hunyadi on October 28, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Yes, the headline is still there (link to another site), with an update that it was a hoax.
Is that really the best you can do? What a feeb.
peski on October 28, 2009 at 9:59 PM
and from your link…
in other words… your an idiot
Ampersand on October 28, 2009 at 10:03 PM
This is boilerplate lefty, Alinsky tactics. Dan Rather, Jayson Blair, the Jenin “massacre”, Reuters – there are too many deliberate leftist journalism frauds to list but if there’s one reporting mistake of any kind from the right the liberals go into supernova mode.
As a tactic, the left and liberals never accept responsibility for anything. In their world, the only reason for ethics or standards of any kind is to club their opponents over the head with them.
Django on October 28, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Same kid, one year from now:
Well, my beats is sick and my rhymes is phat
In the meantime, did you want fries with that?
Jim Treacher on October 28, 2009 at 10:08 PM
This, you mean?
Although you do raise a fair point: If Hot Air was among the “big boy media,” they’d have put this correction on page A16, three weeks later.
Jim Treacher on October 28, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Pathetic.
Dopenstrange on October 28, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Jesus…BEHOLD!!
The Toilet Bugs of Tomorrow!!!
BigWyo on October 28, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Somewhere, Murrow sheds a tear.
faol on October 28, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Hang on a sec…Didn’t Meghan MacTruck go to Columbia???
BigWyo on October 28, 2009 at 10:29 PM
OMG. My kids are 19 and 21. If they were this stupid and immature I’d run them over with my own car. And back up. Repeatedly.
di butler on October 28, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Yes. That’s why we’re not supposed to pick on h… Hey, waitamminit!
Jim Treacher on October 28, 2009 at 10:30 PM
“give every side a chance to speak” than proceeds to bash against Fox News and Hannity?
He left out the following lines:
Our papers? no-thing to see,
media, full of hypoc-risy.
Just another lefty tool,
who went off to J school.
OUCH, my ears are bleeding
my hair is quickly receed-ing.
Please stop this attempt at song.
Will someone give them the gong?
Word.
dthorny on October 28, 2009 at 10:58 PM
I’m sure they planned this to be some YouTube hit. “He Wolf” with the funny guy dancing to Shakira’s “She Wolf” gets probably about 700,000 more hits per day.
Marcus on October 28, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Immediately noticed the retraction as well. The eye catches the update on the retraction instantly.
rukiddingme on October 28, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Key West Reader – git ‘er done! Thanks for sharing this story with us . . .
As for these rapless rappers, they will learn about the big bad world out there, but if they can afford Columbia, they won’t have a clue about the real world. This is the future? Scary. People of New York, you need a lesson in fly-over country logic.
doncow on October 29, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Fortunately I had one of the best journalism professors in the history of modern media, Irving Fang at the University of Minnesota. He never would have tolerated this type of b.s. and not because of any party affiliation but because he truly believed that the media’s role in society as the 4th Estate was to perform with objectivity, honesty and integrity the necessary checks and balances to give voice to the voiceless and hold the powerful accountable. Unfortunately, these students are being trained as tools to spew liberal propaganda in the vein of Michael Moore rather than real news and information.
Goldy1 on October 29, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Some of the shittiest rapping I’ve ever heard.
Sixth Guard on October 29, 2009 at 12:32 AM
The only journalist I trust is Clark Kent.
AaronGuzman on October 29, 2009 at 12:50 AM
Besides our lovable Andy Levy has the J school ever produced something good? From the people I know who have gone there its one big group of D-Bags who think they are god’s gift to the world, or rather Allah’s gift to the world.
Rbastid on October 29, 2009 at 1:00 AM
They say you go to Teaching School if you can’t hack anything else, evidently J-school is where you go if you can’t hack Teaching School.
I actually took a shot at J-school before the Intarwebs Exploshun. I realized pretty quick there was no work for anyone not in the right ThinkGroup.
Too bad I didn’t hang on for the New Media, I could have been the next Jeff Goldstein… Ace… Allahpundit…
Darn, talked myself into a corner there, didn’t I?
Merovign on October 29, 2009 at 1:19 AM
Okay.
That was awful.
Was that the the the “teacher” professing her approval there at the end of this horror? Professor(ial)?
And and why does that kid keep touching his hair over and over and over again??
“That`s just not riiiiiight!”
J-School here being being p-p-post graduate work??
Definitely high school. Somebody tell me it is just high school and this was a hoax and I just had a nightmare that`s all . . . .
I think I saw Freddy Krueger in there somewhere.
Somebody wake me up or call in Jason to take care of this mess . . . .
Sherman1864 on October 29, 2009 at 1:59 AM
who is that… um… guy?
wasn’t that…. um … guy on American idiot, er idol?
that androgynous guy… or sompting
Kini on October 29, 2009 at 2:09 AM
You dissing Lois (and Iris West Allen?) cold
(Cat Grant is a bitc# though)
Ampersand on October 29, 2009 at 2:18 AM
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