re: WSJ piece about Jill Biden gets author cancelled from Northwestern

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So basically you have no problem with that exact same style of journalism so long as it is reporting on someone you don't like, or being broadcast by a "journalist" of a specific political party that you do like? But when it's relating to someone/an entity that you do agree with then patronizing language and selective wording is wrong?

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Not sure how you gleaned that from what I said. I'd object to the author's tone for anyone. The article itself is meandering and rather stupid. If the argument is, people who don't hold medical titles shouldn't call themselves doctors, fine, but Mr. Epstein goes further and says the Ph.D has seen eroding standards, which isn't true in my experience. I'm getting an MD/Ph.D at the moment, and I don't see the eroding standards personally. Nor did I see them when I investigated pursuing a Ph.D in West Asian History, where the programs suggested fluency in Arabic, Persian, French and German (and possibly Turkish if you were working in later periods) before you could take oral examinations.

Again, I have no idea how you gleaned what you wrote from my original statement.