The Chronicle of Higher Education

How Do We Afflict the Comfortable When They Own Us?

One of our most talented students, who also works for a network news affiliate in Iowa, asks advice about an unpaid internship. It was offered without warning three weeks into the semester by an outlet owned by Viacom, a corporate colossus with which I do business regularly as director of the journalism school at Iowa State University.

Because...

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