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Board of Trustees member Dr. Anthony Fellow believes that PCC is a great university with a wonderful staff, a fantastic president, and promising students with lots of potential and who are capable doing great things.Fellow, who was elected to the Board in 2009, is proud to represent PCC. “[This is] a great [college] and I’m glad to be a part of it,” said Fellow when speaking to journalism students on March 11.

Trustees like Fellow decide what the future will hold for PCC. “We are working with President Mark Rocha on bringing technology up to par, including offering more online classes,” Fellow said.

Fellow knows that a great school needs a great leader, and PCC is lucky to have just that, he said.

“[PCC has] Dr. Rocha, who I like very much,” said Fellow.

After quitting his job writing for a newspaper, Fellow got his PhD, and became the chairman of the communications department at California State University, Fullerton. “[Journalism today is] not the profession that I left,” he said.

Fellow worked in journalism for over ten years and believes that what’s happening to journalism today is really disappointing. “Journalism today is changing so rapidly,” said Fellow.

Fellow fears that the print newspaper won’t survive in a more technological age. Newspapers like the Denver, Colorado-based Rocky Mountain News as well as the Post-Intelligencer from Seattle, Washington have shut down.

“There are some deep ramifications for the closing of newspapers and the lack of investigative reporting. These are very essential for democracy,” Fellow said. “It is important to have a check on government.”

Fellow believes that theatrics don’t have a place in journalism. “[On television], you don’t see the sources talking, you see the reporters. I’m not happy with the coverage of what’s going on [in Japan and Libya],” Fellow said. Journalists are becoming celebrities, and that is not what journalism is about, he added.

Today it is about profits, said Fellow. Newspapers are laying off more and more staff in attempts to make more profit. “News is free,” said Fellow. Companies are not able to make ends meet as more young people get their news from sources other than print newspapers.

According to Fellow, young people get their news from Jon Stewart, and not from a reliable news source. “[People] believe parodies are real news,” said Fellow. “If you read a newspaper, you get a plethora of information and philosophies.”

With young people only getting their news online, they’re getting only the information they want to see. They don’t get all sides, said Fellow. “Americans are so difficult to get out of their cocoon. They are scared of something different.”

While expressing his concern for journalism and journalism education, Fellow maintained that there is still a bright spot out there. “I think there’s a place for everybody,” Fellow said. “There’s a future out there, but you just have to stick to it and work hard, and don’t ever give up on your dreams.

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