Academic media: Don’t criticize your colleagues for “dumbing it down”
Are you a media whore? Or do you worry you might be labeled one by your colleagues – if not to your face, then behind your back?
In the process of delivering hundreds of media engagement workshops, I’ve heard dozens and dozens of you express this fear, using precisely this language. You’ve made it clear that the mild put-down of “microphone hog” I was familiar with has now been replaced with …