Yes. It is not my opinion that all Pacifica programs are wonderful, but there are good ones, and that's good enough for our purposes and better than what NPR and the corporate media, all of whose employees are presumably professionally trained, provide.
Besides, aren't journalism majors more unemployed and underemployed than almost any other category of college graduates?
***** U.S. JOURNALISM MARKET WEAK
The percentage of 2002 journalism and mass comm bachelors-level graduates who were working in communication jobs a half-year after graduation was the lowest it's been in a decade, reports a new study in the November issue of AEJMC News.
The study also shows that the proportions of bachelors-level grads who held a full-time job or who reported multiple job offers upon graduation also declined over levels reported by grads a year earlier.
Fewer than six in 10 of those with bachelor's degrees in spring 2002 had full-time work by Oct. 31 of 2002.
"The level of unemployment among journalism and mass communication graduates exceeds the level of unemployment in the U.S. civilian labor force, and even the level of unemployment for those 20-24 years old," writes the research team, headed by University of Georgia prof Lee Becker.
Salaries remained stable, with a median of US$26,000 for those holding a full-time job. Benefit packages also remained stable, though that was because more grads were paying the benefits themselves, the study says.
Graduates at the master's level also faced a difficult job market.
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I don't think there is any shortage of professional skills. There is a shortage of jobs for those who are professionally trained in journalism and mass communication. -- Yoshie
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