It would be the same to say that, since the three commenters above agreed with you, then all people who comment on blog posts agree with you.

Yes, this is stupid. No, it doesn’t belong in a journalism ethics class. These things are true.

But, what is ignored are some simple facts:

1) Columbia is a crap university. Nobody cares what the president of the university says, let alone some moron grad students with too much time on their hands.

2) Journo grad students are rarely ever found in the mainstream media. They’re perpetual students. There is only a tiny percentage of mainstream media reporters from any outlet (print, radio, tv, online) that have post-graduate degrees. This is therefore not representative of the media as a whole.

3) If you can find a journalism graduate – or any other college graduate for that matter – who still follows all the rules and teachings of every professor they ever had, sell them to the Smithsonian and retire.

4) Saying they’re idiots for not knowning the numbers on “how many liberal contributors there are at Fox versus conservative contributors at ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and PBS COMBINED!” and then not having those same numbers in the story means that the writer of this story is an idiot too.

5) Fox is a pretty crappy media outlet because they very obviously slant their coverage. Same for MSNBC. They just slant in a different direction. Agreeing with one or the other doesn’t change the fact that they’re bad journalists who are breaking the rules that they teach in journalism ethics classes. If this song was about MSNBC being crap, it would be the same exact song with different names (though, Newsbusters would call it the greatest thing ever done instead of an offense).