In essence I am probably getting a better education that those at Columbia Journalism School, with a much more solid career before me.
The truth of it hit me when my professor Lyn Robinson joked that librarians should become journalists.
I believe that we are in essence already jounalists.
Newpapers are dying. Staff reporters are getting laid off everywhere.
Digital Information Managers/Librarians/Knowledge Managers are at the forefront of reallocating monies - they have the closet ties to government and industry and academia.
Conde Nast is shrinking, the NYT is haemmoraging - publishers have no readers anymore.
Librarians will redefine Access digitally.
Even TV journalism has become a TV circus proganda wheel to drive up viewership - and that isn't working either, viewership is dropping - even worse for budding journalists if you aren't an actor you can't be a'journalist' on TV anymore (Gus Van Sant's To Die For is a great portrayal of an 'aspirng TV journalist) . Librarians are heading up YouTube, the biggest online archive of video.
Anyway these are all just ideas floating around in my head now. Back to reading.
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