Notes
H.L. Mencken said " the role of the journalist is to heave dead cats into sanctuaries" What this means is open to all sorts of interpretation. For example sanctuaries could be your room or your mind or something or place your value/ worship. Another think it might be saying is that somebody has to ask the tough questions and that somebody is the journalist. Why, well maybe because of the news values we learned about last class. They need to find away to make there stories cover all of them somehow. If the story doesn't then it probably isn't worth covering. They also have bosses and they have bosses as well that they don't want to upset. If they "heave to many cats" then the audience and the money will go away. So it is a tricky situation they are in.
Staged events make the most money (heave the most cats). One of the biggest staged event is the super bowl. Did you know that 30 seconds of ad space was between 2.5 and 2.8 million, and that was even lower than the previous year. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34803473/.
Journalismjobs.com
this is actually a pretty awesome website. It has all your jobs for pretty much everything in the communication field. But what I think is so cool is the fact that there is also an internship list. Most job site search engines don't have that which is impressive.
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