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I like Carl, maybe because I also prefer Dustin Hoffman over Robert Redford (who played Woodward)...but this letter, and also how he's decided to teach journalism at a public instead of prestigious private college, makes me think he's a real standup guy as well as one of our most famous investigative reporters.

http://nypost.com/2013/09/19/iconic-journalist-carl-bernstei...

> “I didn’t want to go to an Ivy League college or university — too many of them are stuck in a rarified approach to learning. I also wanted to be among a student body that had more young people who were not there by virtue of legacy or earning power of their parents.

Also, Bob Woodward has not been as gracious during the whole Snowden affair, basically annoyed that Snowden didn't go to him, as opposed to his apparently inferior WaPo colleagues, such as Barton Gellman, who's a Pulitzer-winning journalist (twice) himself:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/barton-gellman-bob-...




Oh please. As if everyone going to an IVY League (or similar) school is there because of legacy or earning power of their parents?

"that had more young people who were not there by virtue of legacy or earning power of their parents"

I think that's a huge leap.

Not only that but the IVY League schools have a large number of students that are there on scholarship and are given a great opportunity.

Harvard (as only one example) gives free tuition to certain students:

http://politicalblindspot.com/harvard-university-offers-free...

He can and should teach wherever he wants of course. But to cloak it in some kind of higher purpose or respectability as if he is better than the person who decides they do want to teach at a particular prestigious school I just don't agree with that.


He said more people in Ivies are there because of legacy/earning power of parents, relative to the average school (which I think is a rather uncontroversial point). He didn't say everyone, which is what you're saying.


You've given as little data to your claim as he did to his. Maybe he said that just to seem noble, or maybe he actually looked into the numbers and is speaking the truth. Without looking those numbers up yourself your comment is just guesswork.




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