Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Sunday, May 11, 2003


This latest ploy by J-school deans to "improve" the news (in this instance, the execrable TV end) reminds me of an article Mencken wrote (which I read when I still respected him) where he let the reformer-novelist Upton Sinclair have it for a particularly lame-brained scheme to improve newspapers. Just how did he propose to improve papers? Simple: by having professors be their reporters and editors. Surely professors would have respect for truth and objectivity. Imagine someone trying that act today! Well, we can. Just read the papers. The more things change....

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