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Posted on 02/20/2017 9:07:31 AM PST by Oldpuppymax

Georgetown University's course catalog for its Masters in Journalism program reads like an advert for a farm team of liberal, agenda-driven rookies, destined for placement in the Capitol Hill bubble of see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. According to the university, journalism students can look forward to, “mastering the art of compelling storytelling through firsthand experience in the vibrant political and cultural landscape of the nations’ capitol.” Shouldn’t there be some mention of the gathering of facts?

Apparently not. For one half of the school's elective offerings feature a storytelling theme that runs counter to the original journalistic aim of truth telling. The school's web adverts for the study of journalism feature such classes as Storytelling, Storytelling for Change, Visual Storytelling and Multimedia Storytelling. Permit me here to be a pedantic English teacher when I remind the reader that a storyteller, according to one of Webster's definitions, is a "fibber or liar." Given these course titles, I would suggest that Georgetown shift its narrative tales offerings to the creative writing program in one of academia's recently discarded English departments.

Here are some suggestions for courses that might have been offered, but were glaringly omitted: Covering economic topics; covering the federal government's budget; factually covering environmental, scientific, medical news in depth; covering public schools and education at all levels, K-twelve. How about a project on the topic of JFK's Executive Order providing public sector unions the right of free bargaining? Spotting and investigating government corruption in all areas should be a separate degree initiative.

The Georgetown catalog does not offer a Civics course, does not mention how our constitutional republic operates or how America's founders established the most exceptional government in history. No course is offered about reporting on the functions of...

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