Will This Take Off? Yes, Yes, YES!

Posted by: Avinash on Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Former Cal drop-out and current SF Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll has something interesting to say about the future of journalism on the internet. This is one of those occasions where you have to learn to listen to your elders, for they are the wise grasshoppers.

(I have had three idle conversations in recent days with people at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, which is worried about what it’s going to be teaching in 10 years because of the aforementioned crisis in information delivery systems. I suggested to one of them that porn reporting might be a good subject. It’s clearly a badly covered business sector, and the school could charge a premium for enrollment in that class, and thus make money just as the Internet makes money. But apparently there would be some alumni problems with this approach.)

We think if people like Jon Carroll had the way, the world would be a far more dangerous place. For people like us. How are we supposed to get work done?

Renowned Columnist Suggests University Teach ‘Porn Reporting’ [Sex Drive Daily--Wired News]
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Topics: Media, Society, Students, UC Berkeley

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