Comments on: Video: Journalism’s stars of tomorrow drop phat beats on Fox News

By: Spurius Ligustinus

Spurius Ligustinus — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:48:25 +0000

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.

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.”

By: TugboatPhil

TugboatPhil — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:12:23 +0000

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.

By: Yo! Columbia Raps! « Astroturf Superstar

Yo! Columbia Raps! « Astroturf Superstar — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:08:07 +0000

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By: Ampersand

Ampersand — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:26:59 +0000

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

well we can at least agree on Cat right?

By: Mr. Grump

Mr. Grump — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:12:08 +0000

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.

By: Pcoop

Pcoop — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:11:23 +0000

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.

By: Wanderlust

Wanderlust — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:07:47 +0000

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! ;)

By: Jeff from WI

Jeff from WI — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:00:36 +0000

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”.

By: Daemonocracy

Daemonocracy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:56:50 +0000

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!

By: petefrt

petefrt — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:42:44 +0000

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.

By: Fuzzlenutter

Fuzzlenutter — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:08:44 +0000

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…

By: AaronGuzman

AaronGuzman — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:42:22 +0000

The only journalist I trust is Clark Kent.

AaronGuzman on October 29, 2009 at 12:50 AM

You dissing Lois (and Iris West Allen?) cold

(Cat Grant is a bitc# though)

Ampersand on October 29, 2009 at 2:18 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.

By: redwhiteblue

redwhiteblue — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:32:39 +0000

Key West Reader

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!

By: Ampersand

Ampersand — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:18:15 +0000

The only journalist I trust is Clark Kent.

AaronGuzman on October 29, 2009 at 12:50 AM

You dissing Lois (and Iris West Allen?) cold

(Cat Grant is a bitc# though)

By: Kini

Kini — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:09:36 +0000

who is that… um… guy?

wasn’t that…. um … guy on American idiot, er idol?

that androgynous guy… or sompting

By: Sherman1864

Sherman1864 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:59:16 +0000

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 . . . .

By: Merovign

Merovign — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:19:11 +0000

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?

By: Rbastid

Rbastid — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:00:51 +0000

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.

By: AaronGuzman

AaronGuzman — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:50:39 +0000

The only journalist I trust is Clark Kent.

By: Sixth Guard

Sixth Guard — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:32:25 +0000

Some of the shittiest rapping I’ve ever heard.

By: Goldy1

Goldy1 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:20:14 +0000

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.

By: doncow

doncow — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:12:34 +0000

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.

By: rukiddingme

rukiddingme — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:03:41 +0000

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

Immediately noticed the retraction as well. The eye catches the update on the retraction instantly.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:59:40 +0000

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.

By: dthorny

dthorny — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:58:07 +0000

“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.