Back to School for Me

NeverTrumpGOP said:

Yeah that's why I was thinking full time student. That way it will give me time to take those internships, my job now will just get in the way. Taking an internship was the one thing I regretted not doing in undergrad, it really limited my options. But maybe I can do something at night/weekends to make money. So the advanced degree say PhD in communications will not help? That what I was thinking long term, then perhaps law school in the far future. I'm only 29, got plenty of time to learn.

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A degree in Communications is useful only if you know what to communicate about.
You absolutely need History and English more than almost anything. The History is essential because if you don't have a familiarity with US and World History, the significance of many events will not dawn on you as they are happening.

For instance, Americans are only just now beginning to grasp why profit impedes the objectivity of news, whereas people in the field were recognizing the problem as early as the 1970's when Paddy Chayefsky wrote the screenplay for "Network", and James L. Brooks wrote the screenplay for "Broadcast News".
Roger Ailes laid his memo "A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News" on Nixon's desk in 1970, Justice Powell wrote "The Powell Memo" in 1971.
Ailes' memo is eerily prescient:

“Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: people are lazy. With television you just sit – watch – listen. The thinking is done for you.”

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SOUND FAMILIAR?

"Broadcast News" was peddled as a romantic comedy however the back story overwhelms the petty love squabbles between William Hurt and Holly Hunter.

"Edward George Ruddy died today! Edward George Ruddy was the Chairman of the Board of the Union Broadcasting System and he died at eleven o'clock this morning of a heart condition! And woe is us!
We're in a lot of trouble!

So, a rich little man with white hair died. What does that got to do with the price of rice, right?
And why is that woe to us? Because you people and sixty-two million other Americans are listening to me right now.
Because less than three percent of you people read books.
Because less than fifteen percent of you read newspapers.
Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube.
Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube.

This tube is the Gospel. The ultimate revelation! This tube can make or break Presidents, Popes, Prime Ministers.
This tube is the most awesome, god-damn force in the whole godless world. And woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the wrong people. And that's why woe is us that Edward George Ruddy died.
Because this company is now in the hands of CCA, the Communication Corporation of America.

There's a new chairman of the board, a man called Frank Hackett sitting in Mr. Ruddy's office on the 20th floor. And when the twelfth largest company in the world controls the most awesome, god-damn propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what **** will be peddled for truth on this network."