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I'm reading selected chapters of Tabloid Television for Janet's Historiography class. This passage made me chuckle:

No kidding? Regardless of my background as an English undergrad or experience as a magazine journalist, this seems like a common sense, man-on-the-street understanding of journalistic training: to become a journalist, one needs to learn how to write in a certain way. In defense of the authors, I can certainly see how scholars could become so situated in a Cultural Studies, social-construction-of-everything that analysis of social relations begins to exclude common sense understandings of professions.