So says Andrew Cline, an assistant professor of journalism: “Journalism is not brain surgery; it’s more difficult than that.”
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I didn’t read the article, but Cline’s point seems to be that a journalist futilely strives for a platonic ideal of objectivity and comprehensiveness that he will never be able to obtain, thus his obstacles are essential and insurmountable, whereas a neurosurgeon’s hurdles are technical and merely finite.
Whatever. On the other hand, it’s an empirically verifiable truth that neurosurgery is a growth field, whereas journalism is dying. So, there’s that.
I should really be writing clinic notes.
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