Nice try, Professor!

[Fritz Walter]

5. It's been a while since I sat in a classroom

But I vaguely recall that it was the brightest and best students who would challenge the professors about ideas rather than transferring verbatim the words on the blackboard (see, it really has been a couple of decades since I've been in a classroom), into their spiral notebooks for regurgitation come exam time. Sure, sometimes those students were a pain-in-the-ass, but they kept the faculty on their toes.

It was the writer's selective recall about external influences on reporters' -- and assignment editors' -- objectivity that I found troubling. And "balance" went out the window when the Reagan-appointed FCC eliminated the Fairness Doctrine in 1987. Funny that Professor Mindich didn't mention that, either.

And it was "concentric spheres."

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