{"id":3370,"date":"2009-01-31T08:53:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T08:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/31\/a-finishing-school-for-third-r\/"},"modified":"2009-01-31T08:53:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T08:53:04","slug":"a-finishing-school-for-third-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/31\/a-finishing-school-for-third-r\/","title":{"rendered":"A Finishing School for Third-Rate Burglars"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m getting twinges in my neck indicating that I’ve been spending too much time looking at the computer, and I’ve got some computer-heavy work coming up in the next couple of weeks, so expect reduced blogging in the next few days. I couldn’t let this essay in the New Yorker<\/cite><\/a> (via Matt Yglesias<\/a>) pass without comment, though. It’s arguing for a model of endowment-supported nonprofit journalism, but along the way it takes a shot at my alma mater:<\/p>\n

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Not to pick on any one institution, but, from a constitutional perspective, how did we end up in a society where Williams College has (or had, before September) an endowment well in excess of one billion dollars, while the Washington Post<\/cite>, a fountainhead of Watergate and so much other skeptical and investigative reporting critical to the republic’s health, is in jeopardy?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I just can’t let this one slide. Sure, Washington Post<\/cite> broke the story about Watergate, but don’t think Williams had no role: Jeb Stuart Magruder<\/a> is a Williams alumnus.<\/p>\n

Williams also produced former Education Secretary and noted gambler William Bennett, and Yankee owner and noted loudmouth George Steinbrenner, so Williams has done a lot for journalism. Steinbrenner alone probably accounts for at least 10% of the revenue of the New York Post<\/cite> over the past three decades…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m getting twinges in my neck indicating that I’ve been spending too much time looking at the computer, and I’ve got some computer-heavy work coming up in the next couple of weeks, so expect reduced blogging in the next few days. I couldn’t let this essay in the New Yorker (via Matt Yglesias) pass without… Continue reading A Finishing School for Third-Rate Burglars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,130,28,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-journalism","category-politics","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}