Friday, February 12, 2010

The Future Of Journalism Is Doomed!

The world has gone mad. Absolutely, stark raving, completely off its rocker, insane.

An alert reader sent this in:

from Jessica McBride's facebook page....

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Jessica McBride is very happy today because the Chancellor officially approved her indefinite status! (the academic staff equivalent of tenure). This was the final step, and comes after a 7-0 positive vote from the review committee and a positive recommendation from the Dean. Thank you Chancellor Santiago and UWM!!!!! I am one of the ...fortunate people in that I love my job and love working with the students. Celebration time!!!!!

February 5 at 4:03pm
This was further confirmed in a tweet by James Wigderson.

I can't even imagine what would make the committee or Santiago think that this was a good idea.

Perhaps it was her catastrophically poor command of the English language.

Perhaps it was her not so high journalistic ethics standards.

But if I were a betting man, I would have to say that if you consider all the work she's been doing for WPRI lately, I would look for a very large monetary gift from the Bradley Foundation to UWM.

6 comments:

  1. In the very near future look for an article titled: "Santiago, the chancellor who wouldn't quit."

    Does anybody know if he has "iron" hair? As opposed to regular old gray?

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  2. I wonder how she celebrates.

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  3. Maybe she got tenure after that AL. shooting?

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  4. Wow, Dan, I wasn't even going to go there.

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  5. Only a 3-0 vote from her department in the first vote, the first step? That was reported earlier. Only three voting members on a committee?

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  6. It strikes me as odd that the vote was 3-0 in her department. There are more than 3 people in her department. So where did the other votes go?

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