Co-chair of the Michelin Guide.
From Romenesko:
TOM FRIEDMAN, GREG MOORE NAMED PULITZER BOARD CO-CHAIRS
New York, N.Y. (May 10, 2012) — Gregory Moore, editor of The Denver Post, and Thomas L. Friedman, bestselling author and foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, have been elected co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University announced today.
Both have served on the board since 2004. They replace co-chairs Jim Amoss, editor of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans; Kathleen Carroll, executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press; and Ann Marie Lipinski, curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Board members serve a maximum of nine years while a chair serves for only one year. The new co-chairs will share responsibilities over the course of the year.
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If you want to destroy a culture, destroy its concept of quality.
If you want to destroy a culture's concept of quality, put Ellsworth Monkton Toohey in change of its reward structure:
"Don't set out to raze all shrines — you'll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity, and the shrines are razed."
2 comments:
Thanks for the update, Dg.
Kinda reminds me of when I first heard that Obama was receiving the Nobel Peace Prize without doing any work for peace that I (and many others) was aware of.
First denigrate and then get rid of the professionals.
Then honor the substitutes?
The U.S. has proudly proclaimed a substitute culture that will barely suffice until the winners die out finally and a new culture arises.
And thus, money redefines quality as schlock all the way down.
And the next goal is to cut taxes on the rich again.
Until money is only in the hands of those producing a substitute of the substitute culture.
(I'm still trying to work out the logic they are using here.)
It's nice that the tech culture is moving right along though, isn't it? They have all types of new monitoring programs that will follow all the activities needing to be kept in line in our new substitute times.
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Actually I had been thinking of DFB as a modern day Ellsworth Toohey (if not Chauncey Gardener), but yeah you're right, Mr.Mustache probably has that role filled much more adequately.
(This, based on my 30+ year old memories from an assigned high school reading of The Fountainhead.. would reread it to refresh myself on the finer points of all E.M.T. was projecting, but would prefer to never open another Ayn Rand book ever again if I can help it. All I can say is thanks for sparing me the exposure, DG..).
- Mike from CA
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