Where academe and the news biz ought to meet, but don't

This is a good short read about the gap between academics who study the media and the reporters out there doing journalism. Why isn't the theory ever used by practitioners? Here's one scholar's thoughts on the matter.

One Web site quotes a scholar’s description of phronesis as “a sound practical instinct for the course of events, an almost indefinable hunch that anticipates the future by remembering the past and thus judges the present correctly.” Start showing us how to get some of that, and I guarantee that folks will stand around the newsroom, debating your endnotes.

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