September 20, 2002

What Should Journalism Students Learn About Their Future Profession?

To the Editor:

Lee C. Bollinger raises some worthy issues about the role of communications in society ("Editing the Mission," August 9). As someone who has faced this issue as a journalism student, a journalist, and a college professor and scholar, I have followed with interest the responses in The Chronicle's online Colloquy to his plans. But some of the responses are clearly not very well informed.

When I first saw the article about this in The New York Times, my initial

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