To teach print or digital journalism? That is the rub. Daily Intel reports:

The push for modernization has also raised the ire of some professors, particularly those closely tied to Columbia’s crown jewel, RW1 [Reporting and Writing 1]. “F*** new media,” the coordinator of the RW1 program, Ari Goldman, said . . . Goldman, a former Times reporter . . . described new-media training as “playing with toys” . . . and characterized the digital movement as “an experimentation in gadgetry.”
Goldman’s official take on the situation is considerably more measured . . . “They need to know the ethics and history and practice of journalism before they become consumed with the mold they put it in, because the mold will change — the basics won’t,” he says, explaining his outburst.

And what of the current raging leftist bias in much of the MSM? Shouldn’t it figure in this tug-of-war about new and old media training?