{"id":2018240,"date":"2023-08-31T15:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-shows-journalism-is-most-regretted-college-major-as-trust-in-corporate-media-sinks\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:14:11","slug":"study-shows-journalism-is-most-regretted-college-major-as-trust-in-corporate-media-sinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-shows-journalism-is-most-regretted-college-major-as-trust-in-corporate-media-sinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism ranked as the top regretted college major amid declining trust in corporate media."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudy-shows-journalism-is-most-regretted-college-major-as-trust-in-corporate-media-sinks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2018240&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n      <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At a time when the majority of \u2062Americans recognize\u2062 the\u2064 corporate media are dishonest, journalism tops the \u200clist of the\u2063 10 most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/journalism-is-the-most-regretted-college-major-2\/\" title=\"Journalism Is the Most Regretted College Major\">regretted college majors<\/a>, according to a ZipRecruiter survey from\u200b last \u200dNovember that CNBC republicized on Sunday. A whopping \u200d87 percent of journalism graduates regret their\u200b degree choice, with sociology, liberal arts, communications, and education \u2063next on the\u2062 regret list.\u200c Of job seekers with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-public-colleges-and-universities-are-going-to-be-tuition-free-for-families-earning-less-than-125000-video\/\" title=\"Joe Biden: \u201cPublic Colleges and Universities Are Going to be Tuition-Free For Families Earning Less Than 5,000\u201d (VIDEO)\">college degrees<\/a> overall, 44 percent regret \u200dtheir chosen major.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s conventional wisdom that \u200cstudents\u2063 who spend exorbitant \u2062amounts of\u200c money on a college degree, or\u2064 take out monstrous loans \u200cto do so, should\u200b consider whether their chosen field of\u2062 study will leave them with useful and valuable skills. Fields that prize technical expertise, like medicine or \u2064engineering, are generally safer financial\u200c bets \u200dthat justify hefty education bills, as one Georgetown study showed.\u200b In \u2062the ZipRecruiter survey, the least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/journalism-is-the-most-regretted-college-major\/\" title=\"Journalism Is the Most Regretted College Major\">regretted college major<\/a> was computer and information studies, with criminology, engineering, and nursing following in the ranking.<\/p>\n<p>But \u200bmodern J-school students,\u200c on the other hand, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-shows-journalism-is-most-regretted-college-major-as-trust-in-corporate-media-sinks\/\" title=\"Journalism ranked as the top regretted college major amid declining trust in corporate media.\">typically write massive tuition \u2064checks<\/a> \u200bto be \u2063instructed in the propaganda that passes for journalism at most universities and in the insulated newsrooms their students populate. \u200cThey are taught by people\u2063 like The New York Times\u2019 Nikole Hannah-Jones, the author of the error-plagued revisionist history known \u200das The 1619 Project, often at expensive \u201celite\u201d schools. A study from\u2062 the Journal \u200cof Expertise studied two major \u200cpublications, \u200cThe Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and found that 44 percent of Times \u2063employees and 50\u2064 percent \u200cof Journal employees attended elite schools. Further, approximately 28 percent of the \u2062papers\u2019 overall editors and writers \u200cattended\u2064 Ivy League schools.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200bthe 2022-2023 school\u2064 year, the average cost of \u201ctuition and fees\u201d alone \u2062for undergraduate journalism per year was $10,440 for in-state and $30,248 for\u2062 out-of-state. (Of\u2063 course, the ones from Ivy Leagues are far pricier.) The average journalist\u2019s salary comes out to $45,307 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Americans\u2019 \u2064faith in\u2064 corporate media is evaporating. A Gallup study found that Americans\u2019 trust\u200c in media has been\u2063 in steady decline since the \u20641970s. In 1976, 72 \u200bpercent of Americans said they trusted media a \u201cgreat deal\/fair amount,\u201d plummeting to only 34 percent in\u2063 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The field that used to be known as \u2063\u201creporting\u201d has become\u2062 so lazy that\u2064 some outlets \u2062are outsourcing their employees\u2019 jobs to\u2064 artificial\u2064 intelligence. The Columbus Dispatch, a Gannett-owned paper, was mocked for a laughably \u200cbad \u2062piece of sports reporting \u200dwritten by \u200cAI. News Corp Australia churns out thousands\u200c of AI-created articles every \u2062week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChatGPT will become a regular part of\u200d many journalists\u2019 tool kits,\u201d declared a Times op-ed.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent ZipRecruiter survey, journalism is the most regretted college major among Americans, with 87% of graduates expressing regret. This comes at a time when the majority of Americans distrust the corporate media. 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