October 4, 2002

Changes at Columbia for Journalists

To the Editor:

Jay Rosen's essay about the future of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism illustrates one of the pitfalls of not learning enough about the craft of journalism: Rosen didn't do enough reporting before he started to write ("Taking Bollinger's Course on the American Press," The Review, September 6).

Perhaps most journalism students "inhale" only a self-serving view of the role of the press. But when I was at Columbia (class of '76), there was far