Journalism is fun! Or at least, that’s the premise of this journalism kit being sold in department stores.
OK, so journalism isn’t always about serious stuff. Sometimes it involves glittler, gemstones and bottles of Elmers glue.
The “Learn to be a Journalist” kit is apparently being sold at K-Mart. Prof. Kovarik is hoping to find one sometime soon and refresh his Glitter 101 skills.
Etymologically, the word journalism is French in origin: “journalisme, “ which, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was found as early as 1781 in a French publication.
The actual definition is this:
1. a. The occupation or profession of a journalist; journalistic writing; the public journals collectively.
1833 Westm. Rev. Jan. 195 ‘Journalism’ is a good name for the thing meant. A word was sadly wanted.
1833 Westm. Rev. Jan. 196 The power of journalism is acknowledged..to be enormous in France.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. iv. 38 Great is Journalism. Is not every Able Editor a Ruler of the World, being a persuader of it?
1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. vii. 138 Journalism for money is Egyptian bondage. No slavery is comparable to the chains of hired journalism.
a1881 Carlyle in Westm. Gaz. (1894) 26 Feb. 7/1 [He [L. Stephen] remembered Carlyle..saying to a young man who told him that he wrote for the papers,] ‘Journalism is just ditchwater’.
1887 M. Arnold in 19th Cent. May 638 We have had opportunities of observing a new journalism which a clever and energetic man has lately invented.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Sept. 6/1 It was Matthew Arnold who christened the ‘New Journalism’ (that much abused and much misapplied name) and identified it with Mr. Stead.