Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f...
by mc32 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:22PM
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We’ve had journalists claim that all journalism is (should be) activism --that in itself is an oxymoron. but that's "journalism" in the States, today.
So we have journalists who see it in their purview to frame things to fit their objectives as they envision them.
We also had someone at the NYT who said what is in this age called hate speech against a majority “color” but wasn’t fired for those comments. So it’s indeed one sided.
You indeed can post things outside of a professional setting which demonstrate that you aren't appropriate for your job. A journalism professor commenting on the news isn't exactly unrelated activity.
This is indeed close to the edge of what would be appropriate but it would seem that what she said went beyond opinion and perspective and well into a questionable relationship with the truth and hate speech.
A professor should be held to a high standard of rationality and posting things online, even anonymously, should be able to be taken into consideration.