Last night one of my daughter's lib journalism profs had the class read aloud Miss Dowd’s column, under the guise of “enlightening” them on opinion journalism. My daughter responded after class to her that her final paper would be titled “Journalism is Dead in 2008”.
She then smugly asked my daughter if she ever reads any papers outside the NYC area. Her response. . . "uh, the Washington Post and the LA Times?, no, I don't read those". I could not have been prouder of her.