You need to fake a PhD when you aim for a peasant media!

Your humble blogger has been busy with teaching and tutoring load, administrative duties, endless meetings and editing crappy open-access journals where any fool can publish if they can pay $$s.

To keep his job, he edits some books from cash starving university presses where one can publish if he can spare $$s! When he is a bit free, when he turned to Burmese media and social news outlets, he found it is disturbing to see most Burmese peasants (call them laymen?) don't understand where PhD doctors write and show case their scholarly works. Since fake PhD Burmese writes in popular blogs like Irrawaddy, DVB, etc.. Burmese assume that they are legitimate show-casing research outlets where PhD doctors should write to publicize their works.

Your blogger needs to explain you the golden rule of true research doctorates aka PhDs. For example, in your blogger's research field, there are less than a dozen professors in the whole world who could understand and appreciate his scholastic works. And he'd be happy if only ten of them like his work, peer-reviewed referred papers, then he is happy. Sorry to say this out aloud, but he doesn't give a damn what peasants think of his work. Therefore, he will not waste time to see his work in blogs like  Irrawaddy as Irrawaddy audience are peasants.

Sorry to hurt your ego if you were one of those peasants! But this is how the academia and academics work. We only want like-minded peers, i.e. professors and fellow researchers to read and digest our works. Truth hurts but this is how worker bees in Ivory towers prefer. It explains how researchers and professors in university campuses work, we want to see our work in high impact referred journals and not in shoddily edited university presses or popular media outlets.

Having said that, there are fake and real PhDs who crave for media, who love interviews, who want to become peasant media sluts, who act like media buffoons and celebrity morons leveraging their PhDs. That pathetic phenomenon is not only confined to Burma and it is wide spread - see below.  The sad part is that when you do not have brains to earn a PhD and you want to talk to media to let them publish your idiotic rants like "Long live my sugar-daddies with long and thick and yet smelly manhoods which I crave" then you need to fake a PhD!

http://fakedoctorate.blogspot.com/2012/11/anne-spencer-fake-phd.html