August 29, 2003

Harvard's Lowered Standards

Matthew joins me in loudly declaring displeasure that Harvard wasted research money to fund Al Franken. He writes,

In their asinine lawsuit against Franken, Fox may have perfected the anti-publicity stunt, but that doesn't validate Franken's volume as a piece of "journalism" worthy of a Harvard fellowship, particularly when Franken used his Harvard resources to lie to the people he's "exposing." The news that Franken's fellowship was used to make his book begs the question: did the Shorenstein press center directors who granted Franken the fellowship know the direction of his resulting work, or did Al Franken con them -- as he attempted to do to others -- into thinking he was doing the work of a serious journalist?

"Al Franken, Con Man?"