28 Oct
2003
28 Oct
'03
8:08 a.m.
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, R. D. Davis wrote:
Wouldn't it make much more sense for newspapers to
just hire 7th
graders to work part-time and pay them minimum wage, since the news is
typically written on a 7th grade, or lower, reading level? Seriously,
it makes no sense to hire English/Journalism majors to write articles
on a 7th grade, or lower, reading level. If those English/Journalism
majors can't make any use of what they supposedly learned in college,
and, in the apparent majority of cases, they lack the skills to
comprehend much of what they write about, be it politics, computers,
employment, the usual propaganda or whatever else they're writing
about, why employ them?
Are you suggesting that the Baltimore Sun should UPGRADE their writers to
7th graders?