OPINION: Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, fostering a culture of liberalism

Michael Lewis notes that just past the front doors of Columbia’s journalism school lays a bronze plaque with a quote from Joseph Pulitzer that reads, in part, “… A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.”

Lewis, in his 1993 editorial, said he believes a word is missing between demagogic and press. “The word is CORRUPT,” Lewis wrote.

As I reflect on my year at Medill, I am left wondering whether the culture of journalism schools is biased. Whether journalism professors donating to political candidates is morally and professionally responsible.

So I’ll take Lewis one step further and add another word between corrupt and press. And that word is LIBERAL.