Comments on: $6 Million to Build Journalism School Fortresses? http://pjnet.org/post/1115/ Public Journalism Network Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:46:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: tish grier http://pjnet.org/post/1115/comment-page-1/#comment-218 tish grier Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:12:50 +0000 http://wordpress.pjnet.org/post/1115/#comment-218 Len...from what I've been observing, it seems that the fortress-building is a knee-jerk response to all of the exploding business models. There's always siege mentality when things are being upended. In my comment to Glaser's post, I thought that the j-schools should be looking at the citizens and asking not just what is this group of people doing going out there and disrupting the sanctified state of journalism, but also asking why they want to. Sure, the simple answer is 'because journalism has failed' but there's alot more to it than that. It's also about the citizens wanting very much to be part of a larger conversation going on in and across media. We have a citizenry that grew up with the ubiquity of tv, radio and newspapers and anyone who isn't brain-dead from celebrity worship is going to want to be part of this media-thing in some way. Unfortunately, I have only seen small groups of people interested in changing the siege mentality--and most of them, unlike yourself, aren't teaching in j-schools. I think you should go for it and apply for a grant. see what happens :-) Len…from what I’ve been observing, it seems that the fortress-building is a knee-jerk response to all of the exploding business models. There’s always siege mentality when things are being upended.

In my comment to Glaser’s post, I thought that the j-schools should be looking at the citizens and asking not just what is this group of people doing going out there and disrupting the sanctified state of journalism, but also asking why they want to. Sure, the simple answer is ‘because journalism has failed’ but there’s alot more to it than that. It’s also about the citizens wanting very much to be part of a larger conversation going on in and across media. We have a citizenry that grew up with the ubiquity of tv, radio and newspapers and anyone who isn’t brain-dead from celebrity worship is going to want to be part of this media-thing in some way.

Unfortunately, I have only seen small groups of people interested in changing the siege mentality–and most of them, unlike yourself, aren’t teaching in j-schools.

I think you should go for it and apply for a grant. see what happens :-)

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