It’s amazing that some people believe we will actually still have journalists in the next 10-20 years. Aren’t bloggers taking over the world?
Well, in order to prevent that from happening, the great elitist founder of American Lawyer and Court TV, Steven Brill, is donating $1 million to his alma mater, Yale University. The money is slotted to provide training and career guidance to students interested in journalism.
Just to be clear, though. The profession of journalism is still very beneath Yale undergrads, who need to focus on lounging around with books and art and stuff. (Please see “How to be an elitist asshole” for further information on what rich people spend their time doing.)
“Our goal is not to do something ‘vocational,’ nor to create anything that would be confused with a journalism major, which we have no plans to develop,” Peter Salovey, dean of the undergraduate college at Yale, said in an e-mail message.
So nice of them to send that to Karen Arenson, the (gasp!) journalist working on this piece. Brill, the Yale bred uber intellectual, eloquently declares:
“We need to get more better people into journalism. If good people don’t do it, things will just get worse.”
You here that good people? You should do things. Of course, nobody is going to give you a million dollars. That money has to go to the people that we won’t ever actually have a job. Obviously.
Journalist Gives Yale Gift to Aid Budding Journalists [Karen W. Arenson, NYT]