Comments on: A slow train to nowhere http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/2006/02/21/a-slow-train-to-nowhere/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:21:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Andiswa http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/2006/02/21/a-slow-train-to-nowhere/#comment-252828 Andiswa Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:25:05 +0000 http://www.big.co.za/wordpress/2006/02/21/a-slow-train-to-nowhere/#comment-252828 Good that you should mention the whole journalism training course debacle. Your wits journalism programme is a good one, but my issue is that I was sent away from the Vuvuzela, which I think that you have every right to do so if I am not studying journalism at Wits. I was interested in job shadowing, but I was givena whole list reasons why I couldn't. Don't you think that the Vuvuzela should not be entirely exclusive as it is and maybe open up to Wits media studies students, just a few number of them, just to experience what goes on in the newsroom, because we do know theoretically what goes on, but just to get a glimpse. i am aware that media studies and journalism are two completely different fields and some of us went into media studies with the belief that it was one and the same thing. Good that you should mention the whole journalism training course debacle. Your wits journalism programme is a good one, but my issue is that I was sent away from the Vuvuzela, which I think that you have every right to do so if I am not studying journalism at Wits. I was interested in job shadowing, but I was givena whole list reasons why I couldn’t. Don’t you think that the Vuvuzela should not be entirely exclusive as it is and maybe open up to Wits media studies students, just a few number of them, just to experience what goes on in the newsroom, because we do know theoretically what goes on, but just to get a glimpse.

i am aware that media studies and journalism are two completely different fields and some of us went into media studies with the belief that it was one and the same thing.

]]> By: Dispondant http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/2006/02/21/a-slow-train-to-nowhere/#comment-150957 Dispondant Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:08:52 +0000 http://www.big.co.za/wordpress/2006/02/21/a-slow-train-to-nowhere/#comment-150957 I remember studying Journalism and reading "You have been warned" (a book about the Rand Daily Mail) and looking at the contribution that you guys made to media and freedom in our country. I remember thinking, now that is what it is all about. Fighting the man, taking the consequences for what you say, and out smarting all the unfair media regulations. Now I have this education, I am more proficient than most in my writing, but I am working a manual labour job just to pay the bills. What was all this for? And you talk about students you will all be given these great opportunities and all they want to do is shop and party and all they really want is to sell themselves into wage-slavery without really caring about their profession. Meanwhile my heart sinks whenever I read the newspaper because of the standard of writing. Makes me sad. I remember studying Journalism and reading “You have been warned” (a book about the Rand Daily Mail) and looking at the contribution that you guys made to media and freedom in our country.

I remember thinking, now that is what it is all about. Fighting the man, taking the consequences for what you say, and out smarting all the unfair media regulations.

Now I have this education, I am more proficient than most in my writing, but I am working a manual labour job just to pay the bills. What was all this for?

And you talk about students you will all be given these great opportunities and all they want to do is shop and party and all they really want is to sell themselves into wage-slavery without really caring about their profession. Meanwhile my heart sinks whenever I read the newspaper because of the standard of writing.

Makes me sad.

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