Is journalism a higher calling? That’s the question running on a J-school blog at Toronto’s Ryerson University…

A student recalls a deeply uninspirational encounter with ‘a stern, British woman in her early forties’:

She told us not to think of journalism as a calling, or as some kind of higher profession for which we are destined. Journalism, she said, is just another job, and journalists should not consider themselves special in any way. Bringing the news to the people is not a noble duty, but just another societal task that needs to be handled properly.

I’m for nobility myself.