A friend sent me this link to a Rah Rah Journalism! article by a journalist (coincidentally). . He highlighted this quote:

[S]pecial pleaders on behalf of journalism are correct on the merits. Not all businesses are created equal. Cigarette companies poison their customers; journalism companies inform them.

His comment: I’d rather give my kids a subscription to the Third-World menthols carton-of-the-week club than a subscription to the New York Times. Poison indeed.

Yep.

I feel the same way about parents who park their kids in front of Disney movies and other television, or who wash their hands of them in public schools. What, were you all out of tranquilizers and alcohol?

Note: I am not attacking all public schooling. Some of my kids are public schooled. I am attacking the hands-off shrug where the parents have ceded education to the public schools.