Status Updates From University: A Reckoning

He's trying so hard to make "freedom of the university" a thing (like freedom of the press), but it is the least catchy phrase ever

"The university is one of the key layers (along with the press) in the overall structure of the nation and broadly designed to advance the quest for better understanding and truth, a hallmark of American ethos. Not just part of the fourth branch, universities represent a fifth branch, as essential as the press to our collective life and success."

"Over the course of the twentieth century, the press, or mass media, moved increasingly toward the center in American public life. Before that it was more part of the contentious extremes- partisan, extreme in opinions, inflammatory, what was known as 'yellow journalism'."

We embrace free speech "because of our interest I a higher value or end - we want to expand our understanding, our knowledge, our truth, and our capacities to engage in that pursuit."

"Journalism must inform us of what it can know now. The scholar can take longer and go deeper." Love this idea of Journalism and Academia being 2 sides of the same coin