Here is another article from a different thread on journalism…
excerpt:
Almost half of the people who end up at the pinnacle of the journalism profession attended an elite school and were likely in the top 1% of cognitive ability. This means top 1% people are overrepresented among the NYT and WSJ mastheads by a factor of about 50. Roughly 20% attended an Ivy League school. Writers are more cognitively able than editors, as measured by elite school attendance. Almost every elite journalist surveyed graduated from college and the majority did not actually major in journalism. Roughly 80% of typical journalists overall graduated from college. Only a handful of select schools feed the mastheads of the NYT and the WSJ, suggesting the importance of networks gained at these schools.
You’ll notice that not a single public schools was considered “elite” in this study until you start including some graduate schools. My point is not that private schools are better (which they are :)>- ), but what can be done about public universities to keep them from falling further behind. They were once the great American bastions of knowledge and education, now their undergrad programs are rapidly sinking under the weight of an unsustainable financial dogma imposed upon them by government.