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...consequence, American journalism makes extravagant gestures of self-justification. Undergraduate journalism schools, for example, take four years to teach a skill--writing a news story--that most people, even undergraduates, can learn in a week; this perpetuates the fiction that journalism is a profession like lawyering rather than a trade like plumbing. Huge nonprofit institutions such as the Freedom Forum have been created in the press's quest to analyze itself. Daily they convene media panels, in which a couple of reporters and a journalism professor sit before an audience and chew over subjects like "Everybody Thinks We're Scum...
...Well that's what I mean by a skill...
...Right, for me it seems extremely important that as students we learn to take that kind of skill and apply it to unpacking images and objects as opposed to just throwing a theory or scenario onto them. There's something about working not necessarily just from the inside out, but at least establishing a dialogue in both directions...
...something more was involved than Nuland's experience and surgical skill. The patient survived, he believes, because of her will to live. This instinct, the product of eons of evolution, is evidence to the author that humans are greater than the sum of their 75 trillion constituent parts, their cells. Some readers will see the miracle of mankind as proof that a Creator exists. Nuland does not. His surrogate for spiritual piety is awe and wonder at the mystery of the human spirit and the marvelous economy of the physiology that embodies...
With the pitching staff largely doing its job, Harvard's hitters needed only drive in a few runs, a skill at which they have become particularly adept over the last few games...