Django and News Organizations

I’m not a big fan of Politifact. I’m having some issues in general right now with Cartesian Epistemology, so I’m not very impressed by the “Truth-O-Meter” and its silly take on whether the Republican party fear-mongering is “half true”, “barely true”, or “pants on fire”.

Of course, using Django, Politifact must have only taken a couple hours to code. And Matt Waite is a great speaker.

Wired’s Scott Gilbertson reports it best:

**”Politifact’s Matt Waite, for instance, said that Django encouraged him to learn programming, which is a familiar refrain here at DjangoCon.” **

At the Medill workshop I spoke at, I was really surprised by how the consistency of this refrain. Django is a great way for journalists to learn programming.

The panel today made it very clear that the connection is not a passing fad.

It just makes me think, how great would it be if Medill started offering a Django course?