>the Sun-Times might be more effective firing the writers, keeping the photographers, and teaching them actual journalism. I think you joke, but you might have

>the Sun-Times might be more effective firing the writers, keeping the photographers, and teaching them actual journalism. I think you joke, but you might have accidentally made an excellent point. My girlfriend, to pay her bills, is a journalist. One of the things that she's talked about a lot (I'm paraphrasing here, these aren't her words) is that contemporary journalists don't have any balls anymore. The joke is: a journalism professor, on the first day, stages a siren to play outside of the classroom. When it goes off, anybody who doesn't immediately run out with a pen and a pad in hand is dropped from the class. Lately, a journalist can do their job without getting up from their desk. A photojournalist, however, can't. They're the ones running into "the action" necessarily. A words-journalist isn't anymore, so much.