Re: the language watch continues

[Dib9@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/5/00 6:33:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
brian_vita@cssinc.com writes:

<< e was noting one day at the number of journalism students who 
 stated that their reason for getting into journalism was (paraphrasing mode 
 on) "to change the world" (paraphrasing off).  >>

That was certainly true in the post-Watergate, post-Vietnam period, but I 
doubt it is true of today's journalism students.  I don't think young people 
today see the media as a vehicle for change.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine