"Not that I recall!  To be clear, I wouldn't be surprised at all if there was a debate before I was born, or if there's a bunch of Very Serious People in the background half of whom are yelling about the importance of hiring more people from the linguistic centroid of Civilization to prevent drift, and the other half of whom are saying that we should underweight the Great City in hiring journalists because the Great City contains too little interesting variance relative to its population.  Any time you've got an issue right it shouldn't be surprising if half the Very Serious People end up arguing on either side of it." 

"Not that I recall!  To be clear, I wouldn't be surprised at all if there was a debate before I was born, or if there's a bunch of Very Serious People in the background half of whom are yelling about the importance of hiring more people from the linguistic centroid of Civilization to prevent drift, and the other half of whom are saying that we should underweight the Great City in hiring journalists because the Great City contains too little interesting variance relative to its population.  Any time you strike a balance right it shouldn't be surprising if half the Very Serious People end up arguing on either side of it."