This morning in my mail I found an attractive printing of the proceedings from a January summit on journalism. All in all, this is a good print document that suffered when it was shoveled online . I have no idea what kind of time constraints or "it came to the boss in a dream so do it that way or else" loopiness might have been facing the webmaster at carnegie.org or whoever else was charged with putting this document online. Nevertheless, the journalists who shared their experience and insights with the Carnegie Corporation deserve an online venue that avoids the n00b mistakes that I teach my college freshmen to recognize. Here's an excerpt from the introduction , by Vartan Gregorian. Perhaps now more than ever, in this "age of anxiety," of globalization, conflict, non-stop opinion and an overwhelming info-glut, we need objective observers and reporters to help us distill the onslaught of events, data and information into knowledge and wisdom. It is in that connection that we should be able to look to the press to assist us in answering the telling questions asked by T.S. Eliot: "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" Eliot's query speaks to the "Home Depot-ization" of so much of the news that we interact with these days. The proliferation of online sources of news and opinion along with cable stations and an extraordinary, seemingly depthless supply of print and electronic ...
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This morning in my mail I found an attractive printing of the proceedings from a January summit on journalism. All in all, this is a good print document that suffered when it was shoveled online . I have no idea what kind of time constraints or "it came to the boss in a dream so do it that way or else" loopiness might have been facing the webmaster at carnegie.org or whoever else was charged with putting this document online. Nevertheless, the journalists who shared their experience and insights with the Carnegie Corporation deserve an online venue that avoids the n00b mistakes that I teach my college freshmen to recognize. Here's an excerpt from the introduction , by Vartan Gregorian. Perhaps now more than ever, in this "age of anxiety," of globalization, conflict, non-stop opinion and an overwhelming info-glut, we need objective observers and reporters to help us distill the onslaught of events, data and information into knowledge and wisdom. It is in that connection that we should be able to look to the press to assist us in answering the telling questions asked by T.S. Eliot: "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" Eliot's query speaks to the "Home Depot-ization" of so much of the news that we interact with these days. The proliferation of online sources of news and opinion along with cable stations and an extraordinary, seemingly depthless supply of print and electronic ...