by David Safier
UA weighed in earlier. Now Northern Arizona University is blasting the report Jay Greene wrote for the Goldwater Institute claiming university administrations have grown too big over the past few years.
There's not much new here — UA's criticism was more thorough — but one line confirms what I thought to be true: G.I. didn't give out advance copies of the study.
The report, which was not shared with universities or the Arizona Board of Regents before being released to the media . . .
This is typical of an outfit that's looking to get out its own slanted message rather than dealing with the truth. G.I. shot the material out to the press, which gobbled it up and reported on it almost immediately. When reporters called people at universities with questions, they couldn't answer in any detail because they hadn't had time to analyze the report. So the initial university responses could only be vague and defensive.
The media should have waited until they could get a thoughtful response from the universities, but that's like asking a hungry dog to sit and stare at a bowl of Alpo for a few hours. Ain't gonna happen. And media savvy G.I. knows that. Years of training have taught the G.I. propaganda factory how to play the media like a cheap violin.
I think it's reasonable, however, to expect reporters to learn from experience and look with a jaundiced eye on everything cranked out by the G.I. machine. How many times do you have to be fooled before you catch on?
“I think it’s reasonable, however, to expect reporters to learn from experience and look with a jaundiced eye on everything cranked out by the G.I. machine. ”
Well, reporters yes, but the professional stenographers that are all we have left at the corporate newspapers, not so much…