Forum: Photography


Subject: Interesting article for anyone thinking of a career in photojournalism

Alpha opened this issue on Dec 10, 2002 ยท 8 posts


bsteph2069 posted Thu, 12 December 2002 at 5:16 AM

Did I miss the point here? Sorry Alpha I focused on the article not the point you may have wanted to make. I realize that companies always want a larger bottom line. And will do basically anything to make it larger. This has been occuring for some time. Pre 2000 and infact probably pre 20th century. HOWEVER, I still think that campuses ( campusi? ) which play in to those silly notions further emphasize what the companies want to do. After all if there are an equal amount of photo journalists and videojournalists with photo journalists ability we know which one will be hired. So IMHO I would think one way for the university to keep it's standing of "churning" out marketable undergraduates AND still have a continuous stream of undergraduates is to continue offering a photojournalism course in addition to videojournalism. That way one may desire to go to a university because they believe the university offers a curriculum which is educational and is marketable. Regading keepers or the gate. I assume you have all seen Citizen Kane? Right...Remember reading about the problems Orson Wells had making it? Bsteph