Thursday, March 26, 2009

The Only Thing Worse Than...

I can't remember if it's a lawyer that's worse than a journalist or a journalist that's worse than a lawyer, in Troop's book, but I find, for a long time, that I blame journalists not so much for the job they do, but for the job they don't do.

Just for example, education has been in a crisis since I was born. We see the effects of this crisis every day. Why do people put up with it? If only there were a group dedicated to, you know, reporting on these problems and putting them in the proper perspective (versus, say, focusing on random crimes)!

I mean, think about it for a second: What problem do we have that persists simply because those whose job would be to shine a light on it, and to beat the drum about it are too busy with trivialities--partisan politics aside? (The press certainly did this--continues to do it--in its more "conservative" forms, even though liberals dominate.)

I wanted to write a lot more about it, but for now, I just want to reference this, courtesy Protein Wisdom. I disagree with the notion that the turning of the press into a party apparatus is "organic", but the why is secondary to undoing the damage.

Check it out!

4 comments:

  1. You don't understand Blake. Education is in "crisis" because we don't spent enough. Sure, per student spending goes up and up - but we still need more.

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  2. I thought it was a crisis because are kids is not learning!

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  3. Really? Where I live, "the crisis" is low teacher pay and the lack of high paying administrator jobs.

    We're trying to get better education - like they have in DC or NYC.

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  4. Oh, yeah.

    Well, but we get the scores falling, too.

    Of course, that is the parents' fault.

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