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During my senior year at U.T. (1968-69) I was a fulltime reporter for our morning daily newspaper, The Knoxville Journal.

In those years it seemed that the Journal gave you titles instead of money, and I was called the Assistant State Editor.

This meant that I helped cover and write stories about events that happened in our circulation area outside of Knox County.

While I had a nice title, I really was the youngest and least important reporter on the staff. I worked under the supervision of the veteran state editor, Juanita Glenn. Freedom in Chains: The... Bovard, James Buy New $7.99 (as of 05:45 UTC - Details)

I majored in Journalism and received my B.S. degree in August of 1969. The School of Journalism at U.T. was very small then and was divided into three sections: news-editorial, radio-TV, and public relations-advertising.

It was renamed as the College of Communications just as I graduated, and we were given the choice of having our degrees say B.S. in Journalism or B.S. in Communications. I chose Journalism.

I then taught journalism and American government at one of the largest high schools in Virginia for one year. I went to law school at George Washington University five nights a week and three hours on Saturday.

I enjoyed teaching very much and reluctantly gave up the job so I could go fulltime to law school and finish up faster.

It was very easy to get both my newspaper and teaching jobs then, because they were two of the lowest-paid professions, and there were 1,748 daily newspapers in the U.S. and very few who had degrees in journalism.

The Power of Zero, Rev... McKnight, David Check Amazon for Pricing. Now it is difficult to get jobs in either field because teachers’ pay has gone way up and because hundreds of daily newspapers have gone out of business. There were 1,279 dailies in 2018, but 360 more have gone under since then.

I give all this background to tell you why I believe there are very few true journalists in the news business today.

When I was a journalism student, reporter and teacher, we were taught, and I taught, that there was a difference between the news pages and the editorial page.

Reporters were not supposed to, and would not have been allowed to, express opinions in news stories.

They certainly could not have used terms like “obviously false” or “baseless claim” in writing about the 2020 presidential election except on the opinion pages.

Today, many reporters seem to be frustrated politicians instead of reporters. They seem to want to be elected officials without having been elected.

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