An interesting follow up to this would be on the major news anchors. You will find that very few of them have any training in journalism, some never even graduated from college. Many are lawyers, good training for presenting arguments, not neccessarily for being objective. Perhaps, this is why so many people feel the news media is biased. I am not saying only journalism majors can write. I am saying journalism majors learn to understand how to keep opinion out of reporting.

I may be a Democrat, and I may wish him all the success possible... but I am not in the slightest surprised that Rahm was a ballet dancer. I've met quite a few of them here in NYC, and I've yet to find a one who isn't bats*** insane!

well so his feet are half on the ground.

But, still they stiffed the arts

Flyoverland: Sarah Palin was a journalism major. I guess that's why she's so objective.

She is not pretending to be an objective journalist.

Anyone that has taking photojournalism, knows, it is about catering to the readers bias and of course to the needs of the private sector who pay for its advertising.

Bias is technically something a person assumes to be true, and isn't true.

If a person is sticking to the news story, they report what is known, so different people have different experiences, and different responses, and to include those people would be to expand the story.

Business majors learn a lot more about bias than photojournalism student, possibly because it is in the private interest to know more about bias and "news" caters to the public interest only under the reins of special interest groups paying for the advertising.

Most people are not intentionally bias, it is technically an error, related to the unknown or to change, it is not even related to judgment really, it is more related to investigation, so if you hide people, they are no longer in the story.

Not questioning the whys, hows and whens, is possibly what the SEC people did, It takes a bit of curiosity to consider the unknown, to ask questions.

Asking the right questions was missed in Enron too,

And of course Madoff is a huge example of what happens when the regulators don't ask the right questions.

If a simple question can't be answered, there is probably a huge story behind it.

Why does Madoff''s accountant appear to be avoiding peer reviews by saying he does not audit? Why does Madoff hire such accountant to audit? Where do the earnings come from? Why are statements printed in such an archaic fashion, when this fund is supposed to be using secrete computer techniques to exploit split/strike/conversion anomalies?

Being objective does not imply the opposite of having a bias, being open minded does.

End of story.

The only real shocker on the list was Jindal's BIOLOGY major.

Of course if someone has just taken photojournalism and hasn't taken business, and learned the scientific techniques to avoid bias, they would have nothing to compare their edcuation with.

So they would assume that being objective was the opposite of not having a bias, which is a bias in itself.

We all have bias, that is point, there is always unknown, the better you are, or the more freedom you have, the more you uncover, but the Madoff fraud could have continued if it hadn't been for the crash, because as investors needed their money back, the unknown became known, that does not change the objectivity people had in the story, what changed was information, which at one time, news stories were supposed to give, in a timely fashion.

Information is everything, when it comes to investing, the accountant was able to allegedly audit without a peer review in a state where it is required, is possible evidence that someone was not asking questions that mattered.

That is why blogs can work, because world class researchers then are able to spill the beans to the horror of the special interest groups who get the advantage from keeping inside information from being shared with the public. Hence the idea of inside trading, or exploiting outsiders through witholding information.

Leak anything that matters, you will know it matters, because heads will be rolling.

Sorry I brought it up.

I confess that I'm still trying to process how Jindal could have majored in biology and yet wind up a creationist who also believes in exorcism of witches and demons. The weirdness factor doesn't compute with the discipline of biology.

Why are all the Hopkins alum in politics we hear about in the GOP?

...don't answer that.

If this proved anything, it proved how rigged college admissions are.

what is with the myth that all you need is the will to success and nothing else. these people proved that an college education is worth something and yet it is hidden and only after they are famous they let it be known