Academic snobbery and superiority

Below is a quote from a dean of the Indiana University SLIS. I am greatly bothered by this type of attitude that stinks of self importance and superiority. It is typical of many "intellectuals" and "academics" and drives me nuts. It is one reason many working class people end up disparaging anyone with an advanced degree. We need to make sure that such academics come down from their ivory towers from time to time and take part in the real world of librarianship at the reference desk or in cataloging. I for one have decided I like Wikipedia and I have actually edited a few entries related to WiFi. I willalso keep on blogging. -- Bill Drew

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This post came from Tame the Web originally.

Tame the Web: Libraries and Technology: Cronin-gate?: "Via Skagirlie:

http://www.slis.indiana.edu/news/story.php?story_id=958

One wonders for whom these hapless souls blog. Why do they chose to they expose their unremarkable opinions, sententious drivel and unedifying private lives to the potential gaze of total strangers? What prompts this particular kind of digital exhibitionism? The present generation of bloggers seems to imagine that such crassly egotistical behavior is socially acceptable and that time-honored editorial and filtering functions have no place in cyberspace. Undoubtedly, these are the same individuals who believe that the free-for-all, communitarian approach of Wikipedia is the way forward. Librarians, of course, know better."