Office of the President Lee C. Bollinger: 2009 Commencement Address - The Diigo Meta page

• 21 May 09
  

  Jordan Kent

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  richard koci hernandez

  commencement speech

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  [lots of fluff]
  No one should take this development lightly. As Walter Lippmann wrote about the shortcomings of the press in its coverage of the First World War, a crisis of journalism is a crisis of democracy. No one should assume that the institutions

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  • we can no longer expect the free market to produce institutions that actually play a quasi-public role, as universities do or the press does as our "Fourth Branch" of government.  Eventually, there will have to be new sources of funding for the press, other than through the private market.  For now, oddly, a significant part of our world news comes through the BBC, and therefore courtesy of British citizens.  (Meanwhile, other government-supported broadcasters, from China's CCTV to Al Jazeera English, are developing their own global presence.)  We have yet to realize that we will need to compete for our ideas in the global marketplace of ideas.
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  Egg Berry

  "What's more, the very same technology - the Internet - that is making global communication so pervasive - is simultaneously undermining the financial model of the traditional press, as we've known it. Ironically, and unfortunately, at the very moment wh

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