Hacker News Reader

The negative outcomes you describe are fairly independent from the training curriculum in school though. An equivalent would be saying that computer science degrees are worthless because sometimes people become parasites who work in adtech or fintech.

View on HN

Agreed. Those are all straw men, rather than the the natural consequence of a journalism education.

I'd argue that the "evils" of modern journalism are more a consequence of economic failures in their employers than journalist themselves.

As came out in the Dominion v Fox News discovery, even the most political journalists are still disgusted by the things they have financial and management pressure to peddle.

Not disgusted enough to leave their job even though many are wealthy to extremely wealthy. Not disgusted enough to stop supporting Republicans.

I can understand someone who works at a newspaper and makes 70k a year so they have to report on sensational stories but Tucker Carlons net worth is $380~ million.

The key people at Foxnews were shocked and mad at the outrageous claims but for them the ends justify the means.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com