Last April, in a letter to The Post, I voiced my disagreement with a self-serving WOUB-TV commentary by Dr. Thomas Hodson, then the interim director of OU’s Center for Public Media. In his commentary, he had praised “fairness” and “understanding,” which, according to him, characterized the work done by the Public Media Center’s graduates in almost every one of the media markets. Contrary to Dr. Hodson’s observation, I pointed out that in my travels across the nation, reporters that I have read/seen/listened to, for the most part, seemed to have no awareness of any value system beyond that of their high school peers.
In the Feb. 26 Post Streetview, several Ohio University students were asked, “How do you stay up-to-date on the news?” One respondent, a senior journalism major, answered, “I don’t usually pick up the newspaper, but I occasionally read stories from The Post’s Twitter account.” Case closed!
Eliot Kalman graduated from Ohio University in 1976.
