Kurt Hochenauer spoke to our class Tuesday. He, being the author of a blog of his own had some great insights. He also had some great optimism... for some reason. He said this was a very exciting time for journalism and to be a journalism major. This kinda confused me as everyone including ALL my proferssors have been telling me the exact opposite for the last few years. However, Hochenauer explained that he realized of course that things were changing and that journalism was going to be very different in the future.
Anyway, Hochenauer had alot more to say about subjects outside of blogging and journalism. He told us he was against bringing guns on campus and thought that Brad Henry would make a good University President. We had some good discussion about these subjects and fortunatly Hochenauer too laments the fact that academics are no longer University Presidents. He also repeatedly did an impression of an old man which got progressively funnier even though he did it exactly the same way every time.
About halfway through the class I started thinking about airports and found it difficult to pay attention to the rest of what he was saying.
It is good to hear encouraging things about the future of journalism. Most importantly, that journalism HAS a future!
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