Talking Priorities
Posted on March 21st, 2012 in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
Fascinating to see the first three items listed on the email I got from the Harvard Alumni Gazette yesterday…
O’Donnells Give Harvard $30 Million
Lady Gaga, Oprah Come to Harvard
Men’s Basketball in March Madness
Money, celebrity and sports….
To be fair, the Gazette does later include some material that pertains to, you know, education….
4 Responses
3/21/2012 2:18 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/sports/football/jets-acquire-tebow-in-trade-with-broncos.html?ref=sports
3/21/2012 11:40 pm
The Yale Alumni magazine has a couple articles about Patrick Witt and the perils of informal harassment complaints. Also has a timeline succinctly contradicting Witt.
3/22/2012 8:54 am
Yup, I noticed that too, Anon. It’s online here:
http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2012_03/feature_timeline.html
But I find the contradiction you point out very odd—it’s a parenthetical “(and confirmed by Yale)” which is a strange way of burying a major point. You don’t put something like that in parenthesis—or, for that matter, in a timeline. It was a major point of dispute back when the whole controversy was ongoing, and you can’t just throw it in like that.
It’s also a very strange way of sourcing that point. “Confirmed by Yale”? Forgive me, but WTF does that mean? In order for the sourcing to be credible, you have to say something like “confirmed by a high-level administrator involved in the process.” Saying “confirmed by Yale” is close to meaningless.
Sorry, but that’s journalism that only Richard Perez-Pena would be proud of…
3/22/2012 8:57 am
Incidentally, all the reporting-based articles about Witt were written by a current student and former Yale Daily News editor and a graduate of the class of ’11. I think this is a mistake. For such a sensitive subject, I would assign the articles to writers with more experience and, perhaps more importantly, more distance.