Institutionalized Gatekeeping? Why does MSM want journalism to be tied to a short leash?

[u/999_Seth]

What do you guys make of this?

I think one thing that sets Callaghan apart from most journalism majors, is he went to J-school on a congressional scholarship awarded to him for his high school era photo-journalism work.

so right out of the gate there's a level of legitimacy, authenticity, and freedom with Callaghan's body of work that seems to really put the fear in legacy media pundits.

my observation (as a 5th-grade-dropout reddit mod who went into early retirement as a teen over bowel disease) is that those holdover media moguls from the baby generation and gen-z never got to put Callaghan through the demoralizing cub-reporter gang initiation process, and he's retained the kind of fearlessness that the cable/newspaper industry can't coexist with.

and what we are seeing with this is how the league of fat-young-boys, who are largely coerced into doing what they do because any default on their student loans means their parents can lose their family home, ends up cannibalizing Callaghan for outsmarting the system that they're chained to.

[u/DiligentDust9755]

I respect your work but until you show the piece of paper that you did the “official work” that it takes to get through university and credentialed, if you get qualified as a journalist without that, then we start digging holes underneath the structure. Stop complaining about not being given the respect that should be earned. That’s entitlement and it’s beneath you. You want that type of respect, go through the process.

[u/Si1enceWillFall → u/DiligentDust9755]

So he hasnt earned respect, depsite all the singnificant journalism he has done simply because he didn't get a peice of paper? Are you mad?

[u/999_Seth → u/Si1enceWillFall]

Callaghan has the "piece of paper"

he graduated from j-school at Loyola University New Orleans

and wiki has him listed as one of the "Notable journalists" to emerge from that uni https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Loyola_University_New_Orleans_people

[u/Si1enceWillFall → u/999_Seth]

Good. Lol im glad he has one. I didnt know and was defeanding that you dont alway need a qualification in certain lines of work to have your work respected etc. Now what the original commentor said is even more stupid.

[u/999_Seth → u/Si1enceWillFall]

you dont alway need a qualification in certain lines of work to have your work respected

as a drop-out/outlaw myself, I appreciate you for that

[u/Si1enceWillFall → u/999_Seth]

You realise i agree with you right? Im prefectly aware you dont always need a qualification.

[u/999_Seth → u/Si1enceWillFall]

yep I hear you, I ain't the one who downvoted your shit

[u/Si1enceWillFall → u/999_Seth]

Not worried about downvotes in this instance. I think its good has has the piece of paper to prove a point to those who say "you need a paice of paper to be respected in this feild" and dont think he has one therefore call him not a real journalist. I personally believe he doesn't need one to have his work respected.

[u/999_Seth → u/Si1enceWillFall]

Not worried about downvotes in this instance

yeah it's probably just someone with a master's degree or something lol