Is it my perspective that's off?

I watch Eureka on SciFi. It's a nifty show. The premise is that there's a secret town full of scientists (sponsored by the US government) named Eureka, and that they're responsible for all sorts of nifty inventions. An 'ordinary guy' gets dragged in as sheriff of the town, and every week something goes horribly wrong with somebody's latest project. (If you're familiar with Girl Genius, it's rather like having a whole town full of sparks.)

Requires some suspension of disbelief, but a fun show.

However, the latest episode had a couple of bits that grumped me. ( Spoileriffic rant )

Political foo, social foo: Academic journalists

Just as Hollywood, in its hiring practices, has replaced talent with education, journalism is in danger of replacing experience with report cards. Journalism is not a profession. There is no specific body of knowledge required, and there is no licensing. What is needed is a sharp set of skills, high powers of observation, and a humility about how much we can understand quickly, and these come only from experience. But when you’ve gone through Yale or Stanford, when you’ve been told how smart you are, when you got 700s on your SATs, you start to believe what mom has whispered in your ear. You start to think that you “know.” It’s a kind of self-inflicted grade inflation. I’m bright, therefore I’m right.