As we close our third year, here are some thoughts on various events and issues that are floating about the public square: A TV debate between two journalism professors on the role of the media in the recent D. C. area sniper case produced this: “We have reached a consensus in this democracy that more […]
Archives for November 2002
War Follow Up
Some observations on the current status of our response to the Iraqi threat and other aspects of the War on Terrorism: I hope President Bush hasn’t allowed France to compromise our sovereignty in negotiating a UN Security Council resolution on Iraq. Can someone please tell me how France, not to mention the UN itself, has […]
The College Of Education Disconnect
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak to the fall teacher education conference of the Consortium of State Organizations for Texas Teacher Education (CSOTTE). It was quite an experience primarily because, probably needless to say, much of my evaluation of colleges of education is at extreme variance with the audience of approximately 400 deans, associate […]
Thoughts On Business Ethics
In the wake of the rash of corporate misdeeds for which Enron is the metaphor, it is not surprising that there has been a proliferation of op/eds, seminars, and beefed-up business school courses on business ethics. The best article I have seen so far is “Oxymoron 101”, by Dan Seligman in Forbes magazine (it also […]