Jonathan Last, at The Weekly Standard, wanders around the subject of improving journalism education before finally getting to his point:

If America's universities were providing students with adequate academic instruction, instead of pumping out degrees in pseudosubjects like "communications," then J-schools wouldn't need to adapt at all. They could simply shut down.

Speaking as an employer, I’d hate to see J-schools shut down or universities drop "communications" as a major. I’d have to spend more time screening resumes.

I won’t even consider hiring a recent grad who majored in "communications." In my way of thinking the major firmly brands its holder as a learning-averse individual who lacks ambition, is unable to communicate, knows nothing worth communicating, and has never been required to master any difficult subject.

Resumes from J-school grads, unless they went to Northwestern’s Medill School, go into the same reject file. J-school grads are dependably illiterate about the world of new media and – far worse – have bought into a way of thinking that makes them grossly dysfunctional in the new media world. They’re precociously pompous about not knowing what they don’t know.

Communications major? Reject. J-school grad. Reject. Next resume.