Scott McLemee recounts his work as a representative of "the tribe of journalists," speaking to a group of academics who wanted to know what role academic media critique played in journalism. (He describes his response as "a combination of grunts and hand gestures.")
McLemee's not a stranger to academic discourse--he namechecks Bourdieu in the first paragraph--and his responses highlight some of the disconnect between academics and the larger culture.
The most subtle and cogent analysis by a rhetorician of how The Times or CNN frames its stories has all the pertinence to a reporter or editor that a spectrographic analysis of jalapeno powder would to someone cooking chili.
[via Bill Karis]
Posted by johndanseven at November 17, 2005 10:13 AM