WHY I LEFT JOURNALISM SCHOOL. “What I couldn’t stand was the jarring dissonance between what I was being taught (attempt to be personally objective at all times in your work) and the real, unspoken values of the faculty (there is absolutely a correct way to think, and if you don’t think this way you are either stupid or cruel, and must therefore be either swayed or neutralised).”

I had a girlfriend who quit journalism for PR, because she said PR was “more honest.” She had a point.