I realize it's a column so you're supposed to put forth your opinion, but seriously. There was obviously no research done whatsoever, and even in a column there should be some modicum of reality. And even a point to the column.
I know I'm not God's gift to Journalism, but if the people who are writing these articles had gone to my school, they would have been thrashed by my professors. And then they wonder why they can only find jobs at dinky little weeklies in the middle of BFE after they graduate.