Steve Boriss offers a journalism school curriculum for a new age. My favorite courses are:
The Role of the Press in America, which will “analyze Thomas Jefferson’s wishes that newspapers serve as a “fence†to prevent government from encroaching on individuals’ lives. This will correct journalists’ common practice of “jumping the fence†by presenting government as benevolent and the people’s private sector as the greatest threat to our freedom, swapping the ideas of Jefferson for those of Marx.”
Business for Journalists, which starts from the premise that many “journalists have become disoriented, losing track of where they fit into our economy. Some believe they are engaged in a public service, a branch of government, or an activist movement. This course will clarify that virtually every journalist works in the private sector for organizations that must maximize profits.”
