It seems their raison d'etre is to defile their Anglo-Saxon with foreign tongues, creating not poetry, not amusing quips, but babble. And when they have to type papers in that second language, they without fail choose the most visible computer in the lab, so others may marvel at their ability to use the key to create accent marks. And their writing is terrible. Any good journalist knows that long sentences, often including needless interjections, can be confusing to the reader, to whom the sentence must eventually speak, and thus should never wriggle their way into a newspaper, whose objective is to convey information clearly without becoming clogged with gargantuan words where small ones will do, or needless wordplay, or cute self-reflexive comments on the nature of writing. For example, though vocal about the importance of concision, the English major will take lengths to avoid sexism in her or his writing.
Journalistic prose is to the point.
Journalistic prose uses short paragraphs to make a dramatic point. Journalistic prose is the paradigm of writing. On the other hand, perhaps the most annoying tendencies of English major prose are the excessive use of transitions and the rhetorical use of repetition. Like I said, their writing is terrible. So, they'll never find a job writing.