Journalist: Oh No! Student Journalists Will Destroy Journalism!
Found on Techdirt on Friday, 25 September 2009

They complain that without new business models journalism itself is doomed. Leave aside how ridiculous all of that is (and, yes, it's totally ridiculous), when a new project comes along that will enable more reporting in the San Francisco Bay Area, via a partnership between radio station KQED and journalism students at Berkeley, along come the professional reporters complaining about how this is the death of journalism and must be stopped. That's the view of the East Bay Express's Robert Gammon. Why? Well, because it involves students instead of pro journalists, and thus is unfair competition.
The readers will decide who delivers the better content, not some scared journalist who would like to stop the competition by legal means. If the students are better, so be it.