JOURNALISM IS NOT A PROFESSION
JOURNALISM IS NOT A PROFESSION Many scholars defined journalism as the process of gathering, verifying and disseminating news and information to the public. Waiter Cronkite also defined journalism as the act of presenting facts in an interesting and informative way. However, many scholars classify journalism as a profession whiles others believe it's not, rather it's a Craft. 1. Michael Davis classify journalism as non professional due to the following reas ons journalist are not licensed, journalism has no required curriculum through which journalist must pass, journalist can not exclude non- journalist from reporting news,most journalist are not members of any professional organization, journalist are not independent consultant but employees which makes them lack professional autonomy. 2.According to Angela Phillips journalism is a profession because the rate at which journalist investigate, fact checking and standard of accuracy makes it a profession. 3.Hugo De Burg...