It really shouldn’t surprise anyone anymore that the purveyors and proselytizers of dead tree journalism don’t understand or respect new media. Nonetheless, the brazen way with some journalists and academics show their disdain for the 21st century is startling in its rank stupidity. Yglesias notes that accusations of new media as being “experiments in gadgetry” are “like saying that writing books is an experiment in playing with printing presses.”

Some day there will be a Columbia j-school professor who walks into his class of new students and something like this will happen:

The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. “Whither is Journalism?” he cries; “I will tell you. We have killed it—you and I. All of us are his murderers.

Until then, wank on professors of journalism at Columbia!