For a book I'm working on. Does anyone out there have any stories of "progressive" indoctrination as part of required courses (or just in general) in journalism schools? Email me (address at top left) if you don't want to post publicly. The question is prompted by this post about the phenomenon in schools of education.

Dude the whole system is set up that way!

Read Dewey's book on the subject from the 30's (I think that was when it was published).

Dennis

I know schools of education are, but I was wondering if it's as bad in schools of journalism.

My junior year English lit professor at Arizona State University, in Tempe, AZ, in 1969, failed me because I admitted to having heroes. The required art course for that year was also a great personal trial because I was constantly held up to the class as a bad example: my constructions were detailed and well made. At one point the art professor pointed to my completed assignment and said "My God, you _are_ an engineer!" as if I had some loathsome disease. I think I actually got a "C" in that class.

That was then. I can't imagine how much worse it's gotten since. :-(

When I went back to finally finish my bachelor's in the late '80s, the one professor I had who made the biggest impression on me was an admitted liberal who nevertheless was one of the few in the poli sci department who still took scholarship seriously and gave me, an outspoken conservative, the highest grade he gave in both of the classes I took with him.

He was a real standout even then -- and the only prof in that department whose faculty bio didn't mention a poli sci degree of his own. He had a B.B.A.

As for journo, I didn't major in it, but the faculty advisor to the school paper when I worked there, was definitely to the left of the garden-variety liberals. So was the editor-in-chief. And the sports editor wrote an opinion piece calling nuclear freeze proponents cowardly because they weren't calling for unilateral total disarmament by the U.S.