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One reason why I'm getting out of the business:
Detroit News -- After asking his journalism students how many read a newspaper regularly -- four or five out of 35 said they did -- a University of Michigan-Dearborn professor required them to bring a newspaper to class twice a week. "The students don't like it," student Laura Hipshire tells Laura Berman. PLUS: College students have a hard time naming a columnist they read on a regular basis.
I don't hold it against any of those college students. Papers bore me, too. What would you rather do: Read day-old news, leaving stacks of waste around your house, or cruise the Web and read interactive news that's only perhaps minutes old?
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Then again, each semester I ask my journalism students if they know who Woodward and Bernstein are. It used to be just a little more than 50 percent had heard of them. Each semester I get fewer and fewer hands going up. This semester it finally dipped to under 50 percent.
Posted by Professor Scoops @ 02/10/2005 12:02 AM EST