Monday, March 1, 2010

The Death and Life of American Journalism Pt.2 (11:01m Video)

 Paul Jay of Real News Network concludes the interview with McChesney and Nichols in which they discuss some proposals to improve the dismal state of US journalism.
...why not take something like the AmeriCorps program for teachers, which sends young kids out to teach for a year to rural areas and inner cities where they can't find teachers, and do that for journalists? Send 25,000 people, who have to be journalists working for websites, nonprofit, noncommercial broadcasters all across the country covering these communities.