"End Times" for the NYTimes - and for Schooling?

by Clay Burell · 2009-06-12 22:40:00 UTC
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If you didn't see Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones' segment on the decline of the New York Times - called "End Times" - it's not only hilarious and, in an end-of-an-era sort of way, sad. It's also fascinating when watched with education in mind.

Watch it yourself, and see if it doesn't lead to parallels in your own thinking between newspapers and textbooks, print journalists and classroom teachers, hallowed institutions like the NYTimes and their ivy-covered cousins in academe.
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Then read Wikinomics co-author Don Tapscott's "The Impending Demise of the University" on Edge.org, or his request for reader feedback on the same post at HuffPo, and ask yourself: what won't be brought down by the internet?

Watching the Daily Show segment makes me wish some satirist would take on Harvard - or plain old traditional public education k-12, for that matter - with the same wit unleashed on the NYTimes.

Interesting times.

Clay Burell
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