J-School: Where Time Stands Still

Almost three years ago, Hugh Hewitt took a look inside “The Media’s Ancien Regime” of Columbia Journalism School, in an article whose subtitle noted that the school was doing its damnedest to maintain the old world order.

Flash forward to the present, and very little has changed in the interim: Kaithy Shaidle links to a post from a young student studying journalism at NYU, who concludes–rightly, of course–that “Old Thinking Permeates Major Journalism School“:

Every single journalism class at NYU has required me to bring the bulky newspaper [edition of the New York Times.] I don’t understand why they don’t let us access the online version, get our current events news from other outlets, or even use our NYTimes app on the iPhone. Bringing the New York Times pains me because I refuse to believe that it’s the only source for credible news or Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism and it’s a big waste of trees.

But a consistently bland source of the most conventional wisdom imaginable!