Over at Power Line, Scott Johnson makes the point that local media have been unusually quiet about that hard-hitting Wall Street Journal piece reporting on the nation-leading bureaucratic bloat at our University of Minnesota.
The Journal put out its piece on Saturday (I added my take on Monday) and the Minneapolis Star Tribune today (Thursday) published a commentary from the Washington Post, that was originally published on Monday. As for original, local reporting on this nationwide scandal: nada, so far.
With the higher education bubble about to burst, you would think that some local outlet would smell a great story, or even imagine a prize for a great series on the topic. Instead, we seem to have a curious form of "professional courtesy" at work.
Author Joel Kotkin has an interesting take on the formation of a new coalition of elites. This coalition has thrived, relatively, during the recent Obama recession. Kotkin believes that this new group is "made up of the leaders of social and traditional media, the upper bureaucracy and the academy", which he dubs "the New Clerisy." If you are within the group, it appears, you are immune from criticism.
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