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Mike:

What you say is a good argument for J-School students to be required to take some economics, finance and science courses to supplement their majors.  It strikes me that too many in the media tend to demonstrate their ignorance with great enthusiasm.  It would also make sense in my opinion to require law school applicants to have worked at least at couple of years before going to law school.  The top MBA programs require that kind of experience before going into their MBA program.

John DeGroaat
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From: Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
> > One other reason:  The world is losing its attention span.  Fewer and fewer 
> > want to take the time to read in-depth reports.  Allow me one other 
> > observation:  I don't believe there are many journalists who are all that 
> > knowledgeable. 
> 
> I don't think that's it, I just think too many journalists want to 
> be Woodward and Bernstein without doing the mind-numbing detail work 
> they did to BECOME experts on a subject, if only briefly.  
> 
> I hate reading news stories about things I know well, such as the 
> Internet, the level of details they get wrong is appalling to me.  I 
> recall one story in the New York Times in which the statement was made 
> that Google owns USENET.  (Anybody who has even a mild clue what USENET 
> is knows how ludicrous that statement is.)  
> 
> When I was on the school board here, I'd read the stories about our
> board meetings and wonder if the reporter was at the same meeting I was.
> --
> Mike Nolan
> 
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