Columbia J School On The March?

I'm just not sure which way:

But the push for modernization has also raised the ire of some professors, particularly those closely tied to Columbia’s crown jewel, RW1. “Fuck new media,” the coordinator of the RW1 program, Ari Goldman, said to his RW1 students on their first day of class, according to one student. Goldman, a former Times reporter and sixteen-year veteran RW1 professor, described new-media training as “playing with toys,” according to another student, and characterized the digital movement as “an experimentation in gadgetry.”

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[seekeronos]

And it is people like this Prof. Goldman who are the 21st century equivalents to those same ossified old coots who just would not accept the idea of a heliocentric solar system.

Suppose that just might be the reason he is a professor and not a reporter or an editor at another failing, dying institution - the NYT.

"Those who cannot do, teach..."

[RedinaBlueState]

This story reminds me of my experiences as a fledgling Personal Computer user in business in the early '80's. Much of the computing work was done on mainframes and mini-computers, and PC's were scoffed at as "toys". Then before you know it the PC's became as powerful (if not more) than mini computers, then LAN's became in vogue, and on and on...

Ignore technical progress at your own peril