A legendary j-educator slams what's happening in j-schools these days

Regarding the comment: "Mencher wonders why more journalism faculty don't resist the shift and suggests that too many of them have spent too much time earning PhDs and too little time in newsrooms." I would expect a journalism professor to hold a doctorate - to have studied the craft, as opposed to have only practised it. So that the professor would be able to think clearly about the new technological platforms that are emerging, and to understand their deepest journalistic and social implications. I expect this from a university-level educator. It's sad but somewhat true that the bulk of those controlling media companies, down the various levels of management, have lacked vision. Newspaper companies and radio stations and such didn't see the new platforms coming because, rather than seeing themselves as media content companies they saw themselves as newspapers and radio stations. And to a considerable extent still do. So they have generally proven unable to adapt as new potrential platforms began emerging, and either delayed the inevitable or bought into dead-end technology. In the U.S., AM radio's clumsy transition into digital (IBOC, in-band on-channel) is a perfect example, as stations created digital side-channels atop the existing analog AM platform. These side channels interfered with neighbouring stations' signals. It's worked so-so on FM, but some analysts could see the train wreck coming on AM even before the railcars were moving. Now, I'm hearing from senior engineers that they will leave the technology in place until the computers go on the fritz, and then toss them. What bugs me - a good number of early adopters spent a modest fortune on the digital systems, all the while laying off news and programming personnel and making cuts to content. Forgetting that their business is content, not the delivery platform.