TexMo senior executive editor Paul Burka was up late last night, thanks to William Murchison. Yesterday on Dallas Blog, Murchison wrote in support of Gov. Rick Perry’s efforts to reform UT. Along the way, he took a shot at Burka, who has argued against what he sees as the governor’s ideologically driven agenda. Murchison’s post went up at 7:06 p.m. Burka responded at 3:17 this morning, suggesting he felt a sense of urgency that I find hard to understand.
Paul, that thing ran on Dallas Blog. It’s not worth losing sleep over — literally.
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Burka says in his response that Murchison has been a DMN columnist since 1973. Murchison hasn’t been a regular News columnist for three or four years.
Dallasblog is way right-wing whacko. “Tom McGregor” is actually Tom Pauken, Jr. Why does D Magazine advertise on such a fringey blog?
@ M Streeter: We advertise on it because we want to encourage debate, and even with its very small audience, Dallas Blog provides a forum for ideas, which you seem not to want to engage. William Murchison, for example, has made a sensible point. The modern university, sacrosanct as Paul Burka seems to think it is, has veered significantly off course in its primary mission, which is not chasing government grants but in providing a first-class education to its students. The critique of its failure goes back to Irving Babbitt and Jacques Barzun.Murchison’s fairly humble plea that we consider ideas other than the standards promoted by the professoriate seems reasonable in light of its present inadequacies.
Fair enough, Wick. Thanks for the reply.