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This promotional video for the journalism school at Conestogac College in Ontario is a revelation.
Lots of talk about print and producing a newspaper but no mention of this new-fangled thing called the interweb. Oh well, journalists don’t need to know about the Internet and how it is changing the profession.
As Howard Owens commented, “It must still be 1988 in Canada.”
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MOnkeyface
March 25th, 2008 at 2:27 am
Thats because the internets are populated by web devs who decided they can spell and became web editors.
Until proper standards and qualifications are enforced on the intertubes no one will bother with them.
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