Shut up and read the teleprompter, kid.

Students are not taught to investigate but to regurgitate. We are taught to be what conglomerate media seeks — content farmers. 

The issue does not lie in the student nor in the professor, but in the system that avoids the subject and teaching of intellectual reporting. Journalists, not to be confused with talking heads, search for the truth. They are bloodhounds for corruption, injustice, and foul play. 

Today, in our brave new world, the culture that broke stories like the Central Intelligence Agencies' hand in the crack epidemic is a dissipating entity. The newsroom is non-existent. The print is on-screen. The audience are the viewers on Instagram. The coffee machine has been replaced by a box of energy drinks and the veteran reporters are nowhere to be found. In their seats? Bright eyed kids who might cry if told to rework a lede. 

We are being indoctrinated into a system that does not uphold the values of the fourth estate. To be pushed in the direction of manufactured media is a disgrace to journalism, a punishment to coherent students and a death sentence for truth telling in America.