Estará a Columbia Graduate School of Journalism a enveredar pelo "jornalismo snob"? É o que sustenta Robert J. Samuelson, no Washington Post, referindo-se à orientação que vem sendo traçada por Lee Bollinger, o presidente da Universidade a que a escola pertence: "We in the news business have many problems: a declining appetite for news among the young; a breakdown between "news" and "entertainment" values; public mistrust over our power and objectivity. But now we have a new problem or, rather, a new nuisance: Lee Bollinger. (...) Bollinger's vision amounts to snob journalism: journalism by an elite for an elite. He believes that most journalists should be credentialed by universities -- a graduate process he suggests should be lengthened from one to two years. Journalism, he says, should be seen (and should see itself) as a "profession'' -- presumably like law, medicine, accounting or architecture. These are bad ideas that, if adopted, would reduce journalism's relevance and raise public mistrust. They might also worsen journalism's central problem: loss of audience (...)".
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