career my ass
No one wants a history graduate. Someone please employ me out of pity.
Not that I should be worrying about that at the moment, given the nervewracking proximity of end-of-year exams.
I wondered the other day about whether bloggers (that word makes my skin crawl) should qualify as journalists; and if so, whether they are entitled to the same rights afforded journalists, such as legal protection from being forced to reveal their sources or from accusations of libel etc. It seems to me less a matter of job title than the ground fact that if bloggers perform the function of journalists, providing political commentary, analysis, firsthand reporting and the like, they should similarly be entitled to all related freedoms and legal protections of the industry. Freedom fighter, terrorist; blogger, journalist - either way, the merde is still hitting the fan.
Of course, there aren't any editing standards or checks on bloggers as for journalists, which is perhaps an important aspect of the distinction, since legalities tend to boil down to, you know, who's liable. But perhaps more importantly, the very thought that every prepubescent blogger unleashing his/her/its daily grammatical abominations upon the general populace might qualify as a "journalist" also makes my skin crawl, and so perhaps it is a Good Thing that such ambiguity of definition exists.