This blog is in response to Mr. Natale's question concerning right wing radio announcers' claim that current American Journalism is being taught by Pinkos.


The first time I ever heard any mention of Marx in any academic sense was in a class that focused on Communist Russia. However. I learned little to nothing about Marxist philosophy in that class, for the primary reason Communist Russia had little in common with Marxism. I also took a class on 20th century China, and once again I learned more about Moa and less about Marx.

Rarely does anyone learn anything aobut Marx, simply because Marx did not murder a ton of people. He had a few interesting ideas that were picked up by a couple of interseting sociopaths, who then went on to wage war. Learned all that in history class, not journalism.

If there's one thing we learned about Journailism in relation to Marxism, it would be how a society based on capitalism can - at times - actually encourage limited information. Which makes sense because I am learning about journailism in a capitalistic society. Therefore, I suppose, it should be necessary that I be encouraged to learn about the adverse effects that a capitalist society has on presenting an accurate acount of the news, for the simple reason that I live in a capitalist society.

It's called education. It's worth it. A Marxist society - if one ever exitsted - would be wise to teach its students the adverse effects of Marxism on journalism.

Thanks to all my teachers that have had the intelligence (and / or education) to teach students how to become better journalists, and hopefully challenge the field of journalism to become more informative and more accurate. Call it a slam on capitalism, call is pro-Marxist; I -like most people - call it education. And it aint cheap.