who’s a journalist?
3 Nov
This in from the Times:
For more than a decade, classes of students at Northwestern University’s journalism school have been scrutinizing the work of prosecutors and the police. The investigations into old crimes, as part of the Medill Innocence Project, have helped lead to the release of 11 inmates.
But as the Medill Innocence Project is raising concerns about another case, a hearing has been scheduled next month in Cook County Circuit Court on an unusual request: Local prosecutors have subpoenaed the grades, grading criteria, class syllabus, expense reports and e-mail messages of the journalism students themselves. Among the issues the prosecutors need to understand better, a spokeswoman said, is whether students believed they would receive better grades if witnesses they interviewed provided evidence to exonerate Mr. McKinney.
We’ve all heard this line of argument against bloggers, but journalism students? A little ridiculous. Hell, maybe nobody’s a journalist – we’ve all got that self-promotion ulterior motive. All kidding aside though, that would be an interesting study to commission.
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