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...mistakes. Nor was I asserting the superior accuracy of historians. I was arguing for the importance of reading all texts critically, a point worth stressing in this new information age, when readers tend to think that they have access to unmediated factual knowledge by consulting their computers. ROBERT C. DARNTON ‘60 Cambridge, Mass. September 19, 2008 The writer is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library...
...least until I arrived at this passage where Professor Darnton describes his early career as a newsman in Newark, New Jersey...
...stunned. With one stroke, Professor Darnton arrogantly and ignorantly attempts to destroy the reputation of the entire Fourth Estate of the United States—indeed one of the great pillars of our democratic system. Moreover, he clearly has little respect for his distinguished brother, John Darnton, who succeeded me as East European Bureau Chief for The New York Times, and who has spent 40 years as a journalist for that eminent institution where he won the Pulitzer Prize for describing the rise of Solidarity and the strikes at the shipyards of Gdansk, Poland...
...free nation, this is entirely possible. Professor Darnton should consider what this country would be like without a liberated, vigorous press drawing on the talents of close observers of enormous skill and perception. I have worked in nations where the press was not free—where it served as a mouthpiece of the state or special interests under Soviet communism, for instance, or a host of Middle Eastern and Asian dictatorships. Their nations, their people were far the worse for this lack of an unfettered press...
...Even such an unquestionably eminent Harvard historian and colleague of Professor Darnton as Niall Ferguson, has been accused of serving as an apologist for Western hegemony and the British Empire as well as American involvement in Iraq...