Cold Hard Opinions

Tip of the hat to Jay Rosen's Twitter feed for today's reading. This space has spent its share of time thinking about J-School's future, and posited that if it's not careful, the networked media will island hop its way around the concept. Poynter Online columnist Earnest Wilson provides a bracing shot of ice cold water. The money quote:

Yet at the moment when legacy media are being excoriated for their demonstrable failure to adapt quickly to the new world of digital convergence, and when newspapers are dying daily, the performance and responsibilities of the institutions that train so many journalists, editors and managers has gone largely unexamined in the public eye.

And it goes from there. Care is needed, lest journalism return to its origins -- a trade of which one learned in the journeyman tradition.