Personally, I think the Medill School of Total Information Awareness should steal him away from the law school, because it would be funny. None of my amusement at this, incidentally, has anything to do with having gone to the U. of C.
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You might have supposed that Springer’s astonishing conflation of himself with despicable neo-Nazis would have left his critics speechless. But no. The next morning, flouting the canons of journalism that prescribe a dispassionate recounting of events, the press let Springer have it. If Truth was going to grapple with Falsehood over the state of television, the beat reporters wanted in on the fight.
When Springer went on TV Monday night the Sun-Times gave him his basic text.From another paper, the editorial’s views could be dismissed as fatuous idiocy. But the Sun-Times knows more than the rest of us about elitism. Owner Conrad Black has spent a lifetime pursuing the subject. Return to 1995, to that evening when what the Sun-Times dubbed the “global glitterati” descended on our city for a Conrad Black soiree at the Cultural Center. This was the night that drew–let me check the guest list, printed in its entirety in the Sun-Times–among others Margaret Thatcher, “Baroness of Kesteven, O.M., P.C., F.R.S.,” the Honorable Walter Annenberg, the Honorable Paul Volcker, General Vernon Walters, and George Will. Not to mention the host and hostess themselves, “the Hon. Conrad M. And Barbara Amiel Black, P.C., O.C.”There was room in journalism for elitism that night, two full pages of it.
