Here's the text of the speech delivered by the Dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Now, to be fair, there are plenty of disclaimers in the speech about how it is a bad time, and there are no revenue models in journalism, and how, well, GOOD LUCK KIDS. Also, it is headlined on CUNY's site as "A Fascinating Time of Opportunity." Which, you know what? You're an organization teaching people how to deliver news, and yet you are skewing things that way, like that? Mmmph. It really undercuts statements like "I envision new revenue streams for media." Well I envision stuff all the time, like last night [...]

I was extremely intemperate yesterday on the matter of Michael Schudson, current Columbia J-School prof, and his contention that this age is a wonderful world of opportunity for journalists. So, a disclaimer: I'm sure that he is a wonderful sociologist and historian, I'm sure his books are fantastic, and I'm sure some students love him. (Though the ones I've talked to, who've taken his classes at Columbia, did not love him at all.) I have no reason to think he is not a great person, and a fantastic wealth of information. So I do regret going a little postal. But! And! Also! A couple of things!

"You talk to people, these small online startups, as Len Downie and I did, the optimism is absolutely infectious. Even journalists who have left or been fired from or been let go from traditional mainstream organizations now are working at lower wages for some of these organizations and they are grinning ear to ear. They have never had such a good time." -Michael Schudson, academic sociologist and faculty member of the Journalism School at Columbia University, in an interview conducted at Yale, as quoted on media's unhappy pallbearer Jim Romenesko. Well!