<![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> I'm the poor man's Neel. And I have no comment either.

Muk

]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> no comment from neel?

airforce

]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> *purrs* Say J-Kush's name again. please.

The Gay Avenger

]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> What a bunch of wiffenpoofs.

Clarence Rosario

]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> If there aren't enough Ivy graduates to go around anymore, it's because they're all here in L.A. trying to get on the writing staff of "The King of Queens."

TedSez

]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> Note to the half a person from my alma mater who's a mag/newspaper editor: I'm available for freelance work.

dmac

]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> By which I only mean to say that the study reinforces the stereotype, rather than undermining it as you claim.

rogadelic

]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> Not to get all "logical" on you, but there are 4,182 American colleges and universities, of which, of course, only 8 comprise the Ivy League. Which means that between 40-47% of American media positions are held by graduates of only 8 schools, or 1/10 of 1% of all possible US schools. Unless my math is off. (I went to Penn State.)

rogadelic

]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> Can we not have this conversation?

Narnia

]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> I wonder what percentage of bloggers went to Ivies?

Twizzlers For President

]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> Isn't Bush an Ivy leaguer? OKAY?

grandenchilada

]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> All you need to get into an Ivy League college is parents rich enough to pay for it and buy the school a new library.

Has Jared Kushner taught us nothing?

sarahblooms

]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> This is what riles up us scrappy scholarship students with modest backgrounds and no connections. We don't envy the money so much as the fact that these people get the interesting jobs.

Smitros

]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> Think of those poor Dartmouth, Cornell, and Brown grads. Ivy, sure, but not even registering on that bar.

Public Sector

]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> What does this have to do with anything?

IvyGate

]]> <![CDATA[Industry Shocker: Half of the Mostly White Men in Top Media Slots Went to Crappy Schools Like UVA]]> Perhaps sheer lack of talent cuts down some of the ivy on its way to the top.

Cookie Guggleman

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