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Monday, October 07, 2002
Can J-School Be Saved?
by Jack Shafer In his memoiresque The Wayward Pressman, A.J. Liebling assessed his time as a student at Columbia University's journalism school with a chapter titled "How To Learn Nothing." According to Liebling, Columbia's Pulitzer School, as the J-school was called in the early '20s, possessed "all the intellectual status of a training school for future employees of the A&P." That sounds about right. |  |
RECENT MUST-READS: To Our Readers film prof Ray Carney plushie/furry subculture - - - - - Goffmania is a weblog dedicated to the influential American social psychologist Erving Goffman. Who's responsible? Neel is a college student in eastern Pennsylvania. Jason is a writer in the Midwest. Sue has driven a school bus in Wisconsin for 34 years. Goffman links: Excerpts from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Article: Celebrating Erving Goffman - - - - - Goffman Biography A sociologist well-known for his analyses of human interaction, Erving Goffman relied less on formal scientific method than on observation to explain contemporary life. He wrote on subjects ranging from the way people behave in public to the different "forms" of talk, and always from the point of view that every facet of human behavior is "significant in the strategy and tactics of social struggle, " a Times Literary Supplement critic says. Roy Harris, in another Times Literary Supplement review, calls Goffman "a public private-eye. . . forever on the lookout for candid-camera evidence which might lead to divorce proceedings between ourselves and our social images." NEEL'S DAILY: Follow Me Here Arts & Letters Daily wood s lot simcoe JASON'S DAILY: Slate Romenesko McSweeney's Pitchfork SUE'S DAILY: Gotham Gazette Tom Tomorrow Media Whores Online |
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