{"id":4817,"date":"2009-05-07T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2017-11-01T15:58:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:58:07","slug":"apple-is-mandatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/apple-is-mandatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Is Mandatory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Class lectures? There\u2019s an app for that: Journalism school to require iPod use<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Kayla Miller isn’t sure why she would need an iPhone or an iPod Touch in her courses at the University of Missouri, but she likes the idea of the school requiring students to have them.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t really see a need for them, but I think it’s cool,” she said.<\/p>\n

After all, Miller, 19, said, if the devices are required \u2014 as they will be for all incoming journalism majors starting in the fall \u2014 many parents will feel like they have to buy them for their teens. Even though she’ll be a sophomore next year and won\u2019t be required to have one, Miller said she might urge her parents to buy her one for her journalism courses, anyway.<\/p>\n

The MU School of Journalism is requiring that all incoming freshmen have iPhones or iPod Touch devices to “help students adjust to freshmen year,” Associate Dean Brian Brooks said. “It also would allow them to record lectures and review it. Many schools are doing it now, and it seemed like a great idea to us.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See, while you’re looking at Halliburton and Blackwater, the corporations favored by the cool and the hep are becoming mandatory.<\/p>\n

And the worst part is the well-conditioned student who is in favor of compulsory iPods even though she doesn’t see the need for it. She just accepts that the authorities are compelling students for the better.<\/b><\/p>\n

I’m not saying I fear for the future of this country, because that might imply I think this country has a future. Instead, here are real estate listings for Sandpoint, Idaho<\/a>. Good luck.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to gimlet<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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