By Robert Fisk - 14 May 2005
London Independent
http://www.robert-fisk.com/articles495.htm
"Keep Out, these words say to us. This Is Something You Are Not Clever Enough to Understand. A French professor put it to me quite bluntly this week. "If we don’t dress up what we want to say in this silly language," she announced, "we are told we are being journalists." Well, well, I can quite see the problem. It’s good against evil, us or them, university scholarship or dirty journalism.
"It’s a new and dangerous phenomenon I’m talking about, a language of exclusion that must have grown up in universities over the past 20 years; after all, any non-university-educated man or woman can pick up an academic treatise or PhD thesis written in the 1920s or ’30s and - however Hegelian the subject - fully understand its meaning. No longer. "
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