4 Responses to “Everyone Is Apparently Racist”

1. walter hanson Says:
   August 5th, 2013 at 7:01 am

   Mitch:

   The problem I have with a poll like this is that Minnesotans overwhelming supported voter ID, but the amendment went down. How?

   Because the DFL mobilized it and didn’t pay a price for opposing it. That’s why they can go out and tax the rich, destroy Minnesota daycare, but zero standards into education while claiming to save it, etc.

   Walter Hanson
   Minneapolis, MN

2. nerdbert Says:
   August 5th, 2013 at 10:27 am

   The obvious conclusion – most people are smarter than the media.

   I’m not surprised. I don’t have solid numbers, but in the last 3 universities where I taught or studied, the Journalism department was where the failed English majors went. So even if you’re just considering the Liberal Arts programs, journalists are at the bottom of the barrel.

3. Powhatan Mingo Says:
   August 5th, 2013 at 11:25 am

   From Hugh Hewitt’s article on his visit to Columbia School of Journalism:

   The 16 students are not evenly split–there are 14 women and just two men. Two-thirds of the M.S. class this year are women, a reflection of what Lemann calls the “feminization” of journalism programs across the country. Robert Mac Donald, the assistant dean for admissions and financial aid, ran down the demographics for me: The average age of an M.S. student is just shy of 28, the mean is 26, the youngest is 20, and the oldest is 63. Whites make up 69 percent of the new class; 11 percent are African American, 7 percent Hispanic, 6 percent Asian, 3 percent Middle Eastern, and 4 percent South Asian. The school doesn’t yet keep stats on religious background, though Mac Donald believes there has been a significant increase in Muslim students post 9/11. A fifth of the students are from the New York area, and between 37 to 40 percent are from “the corridor”–from Boston to Washington. Another fifth are from the west coast, and 10 percent are foreign. It is a pretty “blue” student body, and willing to pay handsomely for the privilege of their credentials. A year at CSJ–tuition, living expenses, incidentals–comes to $59,404 according to Mac Donald, though 85 percent of the students receive some financial aid, with packages ranging from $1,000 to $50,000. The average scholarship is $5,200, which means that these students are putting a lot of money into the program.

   The “blue” nature of the student body is further confirmed by my polling of the class I attended, done with the permission of Shapiro. Six of the 16 were English majors, two studied history, and the balance spread across the humanities. No one had a background in the physical sciences. No one owned a gun. All supported same-sex marriage. Three had been in a house of worship the previous week. Six read blogs. None of them recognized the phrase “Christmas Eve in Cambodia”–though Shapiro not only got the allusion but knew the date of the John Kerry Senate speech in which he made the false claim about his Vietnam war experience. Three quarters of them hope to make more than $100,000 as a journalist, 11 had voted for John Kerry, and one for George Bush (three are from abroad and not eligible, and one didn’t vote for either candidate). I concluded by asking them if they “think George Bush is something of a dolt.” There was unanimous agreement with this proposition, one of the widely shared views within elite media and elsewhere on the left. The president’s Harvard MBA and four consecutive victories over Democrats judged “smarter” than him haven’t made even a dent in that prejudice.

   http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/619njpsr.asp?page=1

4. swiftee Says:
   August 5th, 2013 at 12:36 pm

   Nerd, does it get better for journalists when they finally reveal they “know stuff”? Is there some sort of defining event that conveys to the journalist they know enough stuff to use it as bona fides?

   Does a leftist pedigree lift “citizen journalists” above the mire somewhat?

   I’m fascinated by this journalist community.

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