Journalism schools are $35,000-a-year lessons on writing in the reverse pyramid format and practicing reading from a teleprompter. We should know: We went to one! It was the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, where the walls are lined with photos of people like Ted Koppel and Bob Costas, glaring at you with a message of, “We made it, so can you!”

Heh. Not exactly.

“J-schools should downplay anchor careers,” argues blogger Corey Bergman. “If you work in local TV news, what percentage of your interns in the last couple years have said they want to become anchors? In my experience, the number is 50 percent or greater. But let’s look at the trends. News consumption is shifting fast to the ‘anchorless’ internet. Stations are negotiating anchor salaries down and even moving some shows to a single news anchor format. Layoffs are growing increasingly common, and some TV stations are dropping news altogether. While I don’t like to shatter an intern’s anchor dreams, it’s time for a dose of reality. Journalism schools, as a public service, should strongly discourage students from pursuing an anchoring career.” [LR]

For all those reasons, yes. And also.