links for 2008-07-05

“The major­ity of pro­fess­ors are just aca­demic, and they lack pro­fes­sional expert­ise in the actual mar­ket­place, which makes things even more dif­fi­cult for a freshly gradu­ated journ­al­ist try­ing to get a job.”

“Journ­al­ism is run by old bas­tards who stick with the inex­per­i­enced and the gen­er­ally untried. The con­trast between thespian aris­to­cracy and juven­ile hack­ery was most strik­ing to me.”