Teaching Lessons In News About Advertising

Found at Brittney Gilbert’s abode on the cyber highway. (Do they use that term anymore? I am so behind the times.)

The NBC2 investigators have uncovered more controversy in the Collier County School District. Honors journalism students are not only getting graded on how they write, but half their grade is determined based on how many ads they sell for the yearbook.

Collier County School Board Member Linda Abbot says she was shocked to find out students at Naples High School are graded based in part on sales.

“I was very surprised,” said Abbot.

The controversy started when a school volunteer emailed her concerns to the school board.

“It’s not a good situation to me at all – I do not need to condone that,” said Abbott.

The syllabus says $600 will get you an A, $500 will get you a B, $400 gets a C, $300 gets a D and less than $300 worth of ads sold will earn a student an F on the assignment.

I seriously am going to get out of news. Damn Weekly World News for not hiring me to write fake stories.

Maybe I should buy a suit and go into sales. Or not.

This is the way it is?

Yeah, it is.

H/T to Brittney Gilbert

Posted by newscoma on Sep 2nd, 2007 and is filed under Bloggers, Mainstream Media, Media, News, Tennessee, When The Beer Runs Dry, The Coma Cries.

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  1. Paul Nicholson says:
    September 2nd, 2007 at 2:24 pm

    I have to say if this was a marketing class, or a sales class of some kind, this might make sense. But for journalism? Isn’t that pretty much the problem with journalism these days – too much selling out and focusing on $$, rather than writing good stories reporting the news.

  2. newscoma says:
    September 2nd, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    Paul,
    In a word, YES!
    Will they take someone like me in landscaping?
    Grrr,
    me