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Mar 15, 2005 01:25 PM by James Panero
Jay Rosen is a professor of journalism and former chairman of New York University’s school of journalism. He also runs a weblog in an obscure corner of the publishing world called ’PressThink,’ where he has posted a response to Ken Minogue’s "Journalism: Power without responsibility" from the February TNC. Well worth reading, both for Rosen’s insights into Minogue’s article as well as for what I detect to be a few moments of genuine surprise as a courtier learns that his Sun King might be fallible after all. Rosen writes: In the matter of how did we come to be attacked for being biased? I have an excursion to recommend. It’s not topical. It’s not typical. The tone is in fact classical; the frame of reference is the whole history and literature of the West. "Journalism: Power without responsibility" is an essay by Kenneth Minogue, who writes in the old school style of the learned man taking in a large subject and tracing things back to their roots. I found it in an obscure corner of the publishing world, Hilton Kramer’s literary and cultural magazine, New Criterion. ( "A monthly review of the arts and intellectual life.")Rosen concludes: These are some of Kenneth Minogue’s suggestions for how things got to where they are between the cultural right and journalism. I don’t buy all of it, but then I am not a cultural conservative in the New Criterion mold. I do recommend reading "Journalism: Power without responsibility." In fact, I recommend struggling with it.As for Professor Rosen’s post, I recommend the same.
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