Academe and the Decline of News Media

We're watching the traditional business of "news" crash and burn. What effect will the decline of news media have on higher education? This series of thoughtful essays in The Chronicle Review could provide you some deep thinking over the American Thanksgiving holiday coming up: After noting that he would prefer newspapers without a government to government without newspapers, Thomas Jefferson added, 'But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them' . . . I talk to my students about the news every chance I get. They're so smart; they're so curious. I'm fascinated by how they get their news. What shocks me is that so many of them so rarely follow a story to its bottom. They can talk about anything, brilliantly, for five minutes."