10.29.2003
Brandeis Justice Controversy courses through blogosphere
You know when something hits Romenesko, it's officially become huge in the world of media:
He kindly pointed me to other blogs as well: A current student, Josh, who has been putting up e-mails regarding the matter being sent to him. On his blog, Silver unearths the barren blog of the student who started it all.
He mentions that he got the same e-mail I did from the misquoted student, asking us to take his name off the blog.
I managed to contact an associate editor of the Justice via e-mail, and was told to call their offices to discuss it. I did and got the answering machine (I didn't leave a message) where the basic gist of it was, "The administration won't let us print unless the editor-in-chief resigns... no instructions on how we're allowed to answer our own phones... please leave a message and we hope that an administrator will let us get back to you."
Sounds like they were locked out of their offices. Since the editor in chief resigned, they'll be putting out an issue this Friday according to the news articles.
More on this as keeps on developing.
Five student journalists have quit the Brandeis Justice after publishing this quote from a student: "The only thing [Cubs manager Dusty] Baker has a Ph.D. in is something that starts with an N and rhymes with Tigger, the cheerful scamp who stole all of our hearts in the Winnie the Pooh series." Newspaper staffers apologized after students and university officials denounced the quote. The former editor-in-chief says a copy editor circled the Baker remark, but the sports editor didn't read the column before it was published.Stephen Silver, a Brandeis alum and former Justice editor has also been blogging about the whole thing.
He kindly pointed me to other blogs as well: A current student, Josh, who has been putting up e-mails regarding the matter being sent to him. On his blog, Silver unearths the barren blog of the student who started it all.
He mentions that he got the same e-mail I did from the misquoted student, asking us to take his name off the blog.
I managed to contact an associate editor of the Justice via e-mail, and was told to call their offices to discuss it. I did and got the answering machine (I didn't leave a message) where the basic gist of it was, "The administration won't let us print unless the editor-in-chief resigns... no instructions on how we're allowed to answer our own phones... please leave a message and we hope that an administrator will let us get back to you."
Sounds like they were locked out of their offices. Since the editor in chief resigned, they'll be putting out an issue this Friday according to the news articles.
More on this as keeps on developing.
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