The University of Portland bought a table of tickets for a breakfast speech by New York Times environment reporter Andrew Revkin recently. I was offered two tickets, I negotiated for one more so I could take the two students who waned to attend with me. He gave a wonderful "armchair interview" while we ate our bacon and eggs. I was most impressed with his wit and wisdom. "I'm passionate about reality," he told us. He keeps a blog and thinks it's an "unavoidable responsibility" of 21st-century journalists to educate their readership and interact with them. He thinks the old days of a journalist's "concrete authority" is over, and that their job is to help lead us on an exploration of a "question" rather than a "beat."
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