Bitchy, you make some good points.

In response, let me ask this rhetorical question: How can they get out of their comfort zone, learn about the real world and develop the ability to ask hard-hitting questions when they are afraid to leave their safe space?

A big potential problem going forward is that The Post has become crappier and crappier over the past several years to the point of near-irrelevancy. This doesn't portend well for a publication making a big transition that holds a lot of uncertainty.

I know they're amateurs - nobody expects perfection from a student newspaper. But it's tough to watch what was for a long time a legitimate point of pride descend into being, in large measure, a semi-literate, directionless mess of politically correct scolding done in the absence of fact-checking or much grasp of how the world actually works.

Way too many examples to list (fresh ones are printed five days a week), but here are a few quickies:

-The Post reported that after OU tears down the old science building on President Street this Spring, it will have a new building for the business school completed on the site by August 2016. Actually, it's slated to become green space until COB raises funds. The Post's timetable doesn't pass the smell test, much less rudimentary fact-checking.

-Some sports guy reported for them that OU's basketball victory over UConn in 1994 was one of the biggest wins in the Convo's history. The game was played in Hawaii.

-Absurd emphasis on LGBT issues. Unquestioning, daily regurgitation of radical activists' beliefs. References to "vandalizing of the Black Lives Matter graffiti wall." Exactly when was it re-christened?

Clearly, oh-so-clearly for those really paying attention, it's time for aspiring journalists to put down the social media and texting, boycott Netflix and read more books and do more face-to-face interviews outside their comfort zones. Unfortunately, the digital shift they're embarking on is likely to exacerbate the problems I've outlined.

Don't expect much help from Scripps when Director Stewart flies a drone in his J-school class as some sort of pedagogical gimmick.

According to an Op-Ed piece in today's (2/26) The Post,they are "working to ensure less mistakes".

Maybe the Editor reads B/A ?

One of the problems of the Internet is that people think everything should be free. I don't know how many times I've seen people comment on Facebook posts from The Post that they hate the survey question they have to answer to read the stories. All it costs them is 15 seconds of their time and they think that is too much.

http://www.thepostathens.com/sports/top-sports-editors-de...

"And for it, he (Antonio Campbell) became the first player in Ohio program history to win MAC Player of the Year and receive AP All-American Honors since 2013."

I don't understand what this sentence is trying to say.