Taibbi Says: Don’t Go To Journalism School

 Thinking about going to journalism school? Check out this advice from Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi.

“If you have no real knowledge or skill set and you’re lazy and full of shit but you want to make a decent wage, then journalism’s not a bad career option. The great thing about it is that you don’t need to know anything. I mean this whole notion of journalism school—I can’t believe people actually go to journalism school. You can learn the entire thing in like three days. My advice is instead of going to journalism school, go to school for something concrete like medicine or some kind of science or something and then use the knowledge you get in that field as a wedge to get yourself into journalism.

What journalism really needs is more people who are reporting who actually know something. Instead of having a bunch of liberal arts grads who’ve read Siddhartha 50 times writing about health care, it would be really nice if some of the people who are writing about health care were doctors.”

Writing Advice From The Brothers

I just found out about these guys. They’re pretty funny. And this one is about writing advice and long-lost childhood girlfriends.

Random written thought of the day…

Discomforting writing advice of the day, courtesy of Ernest Hemingway:

“The first draft of anything is sh*t”