History seems to be a subject that gets less attention overall, regardless of profession. It seems that most people passing themselves off as journalists know more about 80s Pop Culture than world events.
Lawyers are another group that could spend a little more time studying history.
Just for the hell of it, I look up the Journalism plan of study for the highly regarded Purdue University here in Indiana and found this:
LINK.
They call it Mass Communications now and seems geared toward delivering news rather than traditional journalism. They have generic courses in Western Heritage, Racial and Ethnic Diversity (
), Global Perspective, and Gender Issues.
I'm sure some History courses could be taken to satisfy elective requirements but I don't see many doing it.
Perhaps someone should send the 'journalist' a copy of Bear Went Over the Mountain.....