By: Former Journalism Major

Former Journalism Major
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 20:25:39 +0000

As a former journalism major wrote to write for The Lantern, I am really dismayed at this article, so much so that I am going to comment, which I've never done. This news was broken days ago, so this is not timely. This article contains absolutely no original journalism. Not a single source outside of a press release, and it is almost word per word what The Dispatch article wrote. It used to be a requirement to at least have one student source for every story - even if it was a reaction. Tom O'Hara would have never let this article go through when he was the advisor. You would have been told that we don't regurgitate press release - go do some original reporting. What a sad state of affairs over at The Lantern. I feel like my degree holds little to no value if this kind of lazy journalism is allowed through.