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Journalism School: Washington Post and Ryerson University

journalism school: But the story was buried on page 19, according to Rabble. At a showing of his film the other evening at Ryerson University, Raymont asked a crowd of journalism students Do they still teach objectivity in journalism school He confessed he considers himself an activist, not a journalist. The documentary noted that, on the eve of the first Iraq war, the Washington Post ran a story debunking every rationale the U.S. government offered for attacking that country. An activist for the truth, he said. Every day in Washington, 70 of the most senior journalists in the United States dutifully sit down for a staged briefing at the White House -- stenographers writing down what they're told -- but no stories appear for weeks examining poverty or hunger among the dispossessed 99 per cent. Surely we need lots more of that in journalism today. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.