The creaking, wheezing profession that refers to itself as journalism has gone from “speak truth to power” to “please be our Sugar Daddy, Mr. Power” so effortlessly that one can’t help but admire the sheer audacity surrounding it all.
The latest evidence of commonplace compromise comes from the academia wing of the flailing industry, and it reveals an avidity to serve established money troughs so keen that it would make Upton Sinclair and any other celebrated liberal muckrakers of bygone days quake in fury.
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“With local journalism in crisis, Northwestern University has assembled a team of experts in digital innovation, audience understanding and business strategy,” the college’s Medill School of Journalism proclaimed about its Local News Initiative. “The goal: reinvent the relationship between news…
