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12/1/2006 <http://thewideawakes.org/archives/2006/12/01/the-anti-american-bias-of-colu mbia-university-et-al/> the anti-American bias of Columbia University, et al I've talked about this before. I have had personal experience with this, having been <http://caosblog.com/2950> stalked by Joe Cafasso aka Gerry Blackwood, who was using Columbia University's equipment and servers to stalk me and others, apparently just because I held a different point of view and supported the true story of Jack Idema. I went to great lengths to investigate what had gone on in Afghanistan, and parsed through articles and found there was an entire story that wasn't told about Idema instead of the lies promulgated by the media. This is appalling, when the Columbia School of Journalism touts itself to be a pillar of truthtelling in reporting yet, they recently <http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006458.htm> had a problem with a test on ethics there, for <http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/476271p-400637c.html> graduate students cheating on an ethics exam, but I can't say I'm surprised. Because we've all seen quite a few secular journalists sneer at the blogosphere for not being able to tell fact from fiction, but I sure see a lot of flaws in media reporting being pointed out by the likes of <http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006452.htm> Michelle Malkin, <http://patterico.com/2006/11/30/5465/a-third-way-on-fake-iraqi-cops/> Patterico, <http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/30/the-american-press-and-enemy-propagan da/> Hot Air, <http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2006/11/whoops_sorry _ag.html> Dan Riehl, et al for the recent burning Sunnis story in Iraq. And those are just a few examples of the problems we're facing in the newsrooms of today, some sadly populated by students tainted by the value system taught at elitist universities across the country; reject our judao Christian heritage; make sure military recruiters are heckled and chased off campus, and conservative values have no place or voice, and anyone labelled as a republican should have a swastika painted on his door in the dorm. No media story was published that Idema, Bennett and Caraballo had been tortured in Afghanistan after their arrest. If it hadn't been for Superpatriots' website, nobody would have known about that. No media story was published about their subsequent "innocent" verdict, either, in the Afghan courts. Yet now, as I discover more, that shouldn't come as a surprise. We have younger journalists who are replacing the more seasoned ones; journalists and pundits who are far less experienced and objective than their predecessors about certain issues, which should be a serious cause for concern. Consider, for example, that Carlotta Gall had a ringside seat in Afghan court when Jack, Brent and Ed first appeared, with fresh wounds still visible from their beatings at Saderat. Carlotta Gall never reported a word of it. <http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-marlowe021802.shtml> At NRO a commenter pointed out: A quick Google search reveals, for example, that the Times's vitriolic Carlotta Gall is the daughter of Sandy Gall, a British citizen with long-term involvement with Afghanistan and who was a vocal Massoud supporter. Massoud and Dostum were sometimes allies but sometimes bitter rivals, and Sandy Gall's writing about Afghanistan is peppered with references to the dangers posed by Dostum - check it out on Google or Lexis. Perhaps the New York Times might have thought about the validity of sending her to "report" on her family enemy? But those are the types of people who seem to be the most vocal in their reporting against the WoT and are spreading pro-terrorist propaganda, and to whom Columbia University's school of Journalism sees fit to <http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/events/schork/> recruit for awards. <http://www.ksmfund.org/c2002.html> Carlotta Gall was awarded the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism on October 20, 2002, and for that, received accolades from the Columbia Journalism school. The Awards are underwritten by the Kurt Schork Memorial Fund and the terrorist sympathizers at Reuters. Gall is a British native, has more than ten years' experience in Afghanistan, is fluent in Russian with some knowledge of Dari spoken in Afghanistan, and got her start in journalism in the 1990's for The Moscow Times, the Financial Times and the Economist from Russia before joining the New York Times in 1999. Greeaat. And now she's working for the New York Times, that bastion of objective reporting! I guess that should come as no surprise, heh? Yet we know of other examples of how Columbia University treats people whose ideas they don't agree with. This is just one reason why I've been an outspoken proponent of the <http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/abor.html> Academic Freedom Bill of Rights, and supported the <http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/> Students for Academic Freedom. What is surprising to me is that for all of their elitist bluster, these are the first people to stand against my right to religious freedom, and freedom of speech on other issues. This isn't that far removed from the Islamofascist ideology except - I don't think they realize that the Islamofascists they adore, help, fund and aid- will cut their heads off just as easily as they'll cut off mine. Totalitarians always kill their enablers first. Terrorist sympathizers are abundant at Columbia, as you can see at <http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0331-04.htm> this article at Common Dreams where it is mentioned that Saeed Shafqat teaches courses on South Asia at Columbia University's School of International & Public Affairs, but also seems to have some intimate knowledge about the Pashtuns, the Wahhabis and the Taliban-all terrorists with whom we've been fighting since at last 9/12/2001, if not before. Columbia's collusion with the terrorist ideology is not unlike that demonstrated by <http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/03/13 /educating_the_taliban_at_yale/> Yale University, who embraced a Taliban terrorist, Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, who had barely an 8th grade education into their midst, apparently to prove to the world how they're a school with strong tendencies toward affirmative action and diversity. Or, in the words of one former dean, Hashemi ''could educate us about the world." How many people without a High School education in America have been welcomed into Yale? I would venture to say not many, but it is certainly interesting to note that as long as you're a Pashtun or Taliban loving terrorist, at many Universities today, you'll get <http://www.cleary.edu/About/News/11_29_05bpr.htm> preferential treatment, or <http://www.thegeorgetownindependent.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle PrinterFriendly&uStory_id=408f8d41-f241-4bd3-8509-59f41384cf14> maybe even <http://www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2006/04/03/Camp usNews/Brown.Offers.Kim.JongIl.Honorary.Degree.In.Bid.To.OneUp.Yale-1777145. shtml?norewrite200612011119&sourcedomain=www.browndailyherald.com> an honorary degree! Jacob Laskin produces another timely article about Columbia University at Frontpage Magazine, entitled <http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25772> "Columbia University's Political Agendas". The entire article is worth a read because he shows how political indoctrination is present at Columbia University in areas such as Anthropology, African American Studies, the Peace Education Center, etc., all areas that at least on the surface I would consider to be unrelated to politics. But having become a little more educated on liberalleftspeak, I know now to listen and look for certain things. He also points out the <http://www.minutemanproject.com/> Minuteman Project's Jim Gilchrist <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfnn7wTgoE8> being physically driven off the stage, how armed police evicted the protesters from the lower library, and also one of my favorite documentaries, <http://www.davidproject.org/> the Davids Project's- <http://www.columbiaunbecoming.com/> "Columbia Unbecoming", which created a fervor of dissent and complaints, harrassment, and political venom toward former students at Columbia's department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC), who were featured in it. We can recall that Nicholas DeGenova, an assistant professor at Columbia University, called for 'a million mogadishus' at an anti-war teach-in at Columbia, and told students there that "U.S. patriotism is inseparable from imperial warfare and white supremacy," and that "[t]he only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military." This is how diversity of thought and true exposure of different ideas seem to be seriously curtailed, <http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25772> I'd like to focus today specifically on what Laskin says about their School of Journalism, which is touted as one of the best in the US, and certainly one of, if not the, most prestigious. Columbia's School of Journalism has long been regarded as the leading institution for training in the field. But some of the courses offered are concerned less with acquainting students with the fundamentals of the journalistic craft than encouraging them to embrace the political convictions of the professors. This is one of the reasons why I rail against "Human Rights" organizations, because they are rife with leftist politik rather than what the title would suggest. Among these courses, "Human Rights Reporting" is the most obviously corrupted by politics. Indeed, a description of the course is far more evocative of a newspaper editorial than an academic instruction in the fundamentals of reporting. It reads in part: America's new anti-terror war has spawned an array of setbacks for human rights. In the United States these range from the roundup and detention of Middle Eastern men after 9/11 to the erosion of civil liberties and privacy rights. Overseas, the example of the U.S. crackdown has been eagerly adopted by Russia, China and Israel in their battles against local uprisings; Washington will have little moral leverage if it wants to criticize their human rights practices. In the name of enforcing order worldwide, the United States also now claims exemption from the jurisdiction of the new International Criminal Court.. Students will examine and report on international rights abuses, and problems in the New York City region. These may include subjects such as immigrants seeking refugee status, migrants held indefinitely without trial on "secret evidence," police tactics, racial profiling, prison overcrowding, the death penalty, sweatshop labor, the moral responsibility of multinational business for human rights, recovery from atrocities through therapy, and the difficulty that artists and writers grapple with in representing human tragedies. And let's not forget <http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2006/11/20/aclu-says-ucla-taser-cops-are-gu ilty-of-illegal-assault-on-bystanders/> "police brutality".(UCLA Student Mostafa Tabatabainejad Tasered By Police) Obviously, the aim of this course is not to teach students how to report on issues of human rights, but rather what to think about them: It is based, quite explicitly, on the evaluative partisan judgments of the professor - a foundation that would be inappropriate for a course on opinion journalism and is even more so in a course purportedly devoted to objective reporting. Another defect of the course is that the instructor, Peter James Spielmann, is a veteran of the foreign service of the Associated Press. However, there is no evidence that he is an accredited authority on constitutional law, national security policy, foreign policy, criminal justice, economics, or any number of other subjects on which he volunteers his opinions. While Professor Spielmann is indisputably free to express his views outside the classroom, it is a violation of students' academic freedom, as well as a profound irony, for him, to make them the organizing themes of a course designed to teach future journalists to think critically and dispassionately about the issues they cover. Moreover, given Professor Spielmann's partisan approach to the course, it is not clear whether his he regards himself as an academic or a political partisan or whether his intention is to train journalists or activists, a confusion that the course description does nothing to dispel. It states that the "course is designed for students who will work as reporters and editors, and those who may join advocacy organizations or international institutions." This description itself indicates that the professor sees no meaningful distinctions between advocacy and journalism just as he mistakes an academic calling for a political one. But this goes along the same lines as a <http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16917> white man masquerading as an American Indian talking calling the victims of 9/11 "little Eichmanns" and collecting benefits as though he really had that ethnic heritage, or a <http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16508> teacher of linguistics using the classroom as a soapbox to talk about his supporting Hezbollah's refusal to disarm. So here we've talked about many prestigious universities, their aversion to the military, and their breathtaking admiration for terrorists, simply because their politics of hating America merge. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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