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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (8601)3/26/2005 4:29:32 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
More important than thou

Asymmetrical Information
From the desk of Jane Galt:

There's a pretty choice Lee Bollinger quote in today's New York Times:

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"There is no profession more important in the modern world than being a journalist," Lee C. Bollinger, the president of Columbia and a First Amendment lawyer whose father was a newspaper executive, said this week."
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When I read that this morning, I had approximately the same reaction as Matthew Yglesias:

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I appreciate the flattery, but the level of sanctimony associated with American journalis is really bizarre and, by world standards, quite unusual. Say Columbia's Journalism School does a really bas job of training journalists. That would be bad. If you're going to have a school, it ought to teach people something worthwhile. But say Columbia's Medical School was churning out inept doctors. That would be really and truly bad. Journalism is a neat job, I think, and people should try to do it well, but it isn't even close to being the most important job in the world.
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