Reporter Rips Poynter: It's a 'Halfway House for Failed Editors'
Bill McClellan, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter [a.k.a that guy, left, in what apparently is not an Onion stock photo], read a Poynter professor’s take on the New York Post‘s controversial jailhouse interview with Michael Devlin, the suspect in the Shawn Hornbeck kidnapping case, and unleashed a rare rant attacking the esteemed journalism institute:
The Poynter Institute sees itself as a sort of New Age school for journalists, but here in the hinterlands, where so many memories are soaked in beer and where journalism is seen as a trade rather than a profession — and a low trade at that, something that doesn’t require the skill of an electrician or a carpenter — we have our doubts about Poynter.
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