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In reply to the discussion: US press corps fights back with open letter to Trump: You won't set the rules for us [View all]BumRushDaShow
(168,766 posts)is that the Columbia's "School of Journalism" is the equivalent to how UPenn's Wharton School of Business is noted for its business programs and graduates, how Harvard/Yale Law Schools are noted for their curriculum and resultant lawyers, how MIT/Stanford are noted for their engineers, and how Johns Hopkins is noted for its physicians.
I.e., they were/are considered the "pinnacle" school within the "journalistic world" (whatever is left of it) and were once heralded for shaping generations of reporters and investigative journalists, and for developing and setting the style for print and broadcast journalism that we see today (which has since plummeted into the lazy and perverse over the past couple decades).
I.e., the "one guy" who you focus on is the equivalent in the journalism world, to the Editor of the Harvard Law Review in the legal world.
I don't disagree with it being impossible for a single writer to "speak for all", but I think you all missed the symbolism of the source.