Office of the President Lee C. Bollinger: 2009 Commencement A...
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Saved by 3 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2009-05-21
- Lampertina on 2009-05-23 - Tags columbia_university , lee_bollinger , commencement_speech , media , journalism , press
- Jordankent on 2009-05-21 - Tags newspapers , Journalism , commencement
- Taryn930 on 2009-05-21 - Tags commencement , speech , 2009 , transcript , journalism , censorship
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we can no longer expect the free
market to produce institutions that actually play a quasi-public role, as
universities do or the press does as our "Fourth Branch" of government. Eventually, there will have to be new sources
of funding for the press, other than through the private market. For now, oddly, a significant part of our
world news comes through the BBC, and therefore courtesy of British citizens. (Meanwhile, other government-supported
broadcasters, from China's
CCTV to Al Jazeera English, are developing their own global presence.) We have yet to realize that we will need to
compete for our ideas in the global marketplace of ideas.
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