Next to an Education degree, Journalism is one of the least academically rigorous fields of study and is rampant with grade inflation.
Newspapers and magazines have been dumbed down to a 8th grade reading comprehension level so they don't confuse immigrants and people with a 15 second attention span. Journalists have to think like a 13 year old.
I remember being told in middle school in the '90s that newspapers were written at a 4th grade level of literacy and the majority of adults are at about an 8th grade level.
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