Dumbest. Idea. All. Week.

Don Luskin ups the ante. In a rare display of Internet understatement, he thinks this qualifies only for worst idea of the week:

The time has come for the nation's wealthiest colleges and universities to rescue its leading newspapers — resources almost as vital to higher education's purpose as libraries, laboratories, classrooms, and concert halls. The plan I have in mind would call upon the richest institutions to set aside 3 percent of their endowments to buy The New York Times. That's for a start. Additional purchases of other newspapers by other endowments should follow.

Man, why didn't we think of that?

Media and Blogging Posted by jk at May 5, 2008 3:57 PM