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UWM POST UPDATEBy Charlie SykesA local rabbi sees a lesson in campus journalism in the controversy at UWM. Sinai's own Savannah Hunnicutt, a UWM sophomore, had the unfortunate experience of having a story retracted by the UWM Post editor for completely spurious reasons. Savannah reported on a gathering of speakers who were comparing Israel with Apartheid South Africa and calling for divestment in companies that do business with Israel. Unfortunately, most of the comments from speakers were vilifying Israelis and denying Israel's right to exist. ** UWM's editor's continue to try to defend their decision: Dear Mr. Sykes, Links to emails deleted for privacy reasons. ** My response: "I fully intend to publish and cite your response. In detail. But unlike the editors of the UWM Post, I do not cave into pressure or threats from special interest groups, or student journalists trying desperately to cover their rear-ends. Your attempt to discredit your own reporter is troubling and your responses are disingenuous at best. I fully intend to continue to talk about the triumph of political correctness over journalistic integrity at the UWM Post."
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Tuesday, Nov 17 at 10:01 PM Hank wrote ...
Total Political Correctness by UWM - PC allowed the deaths to happen at Ft. Hood. just saying.
32272431 Flag for moderationTuesday, Nov 17 at 4:02 PM Fisheaddict wrote ...
Honestly I believe the journalist. Since when is there a presentation above the 4th grade level that is not on film? I demand to see the CCTV feed from that auditorium of the presentation. The fact that there is absolutely no record of the presentation anywhere means that I have to trust the reporter.
32256466 Flag for moderationMonday, Nov 16 at 5:13 PM Spaulding wrote ...
Since the concensus is Ms. Hunnicutt accurately captured the tenor of the event, then why wouldn't the editor just publish a correction instead of retracting the entire article. In the future I would advise Ms. Hunnicutt to use an audio recorder to: 1) allow her to dictate exact quotes 2) protect herself against a politically correct editor searching for a reason to discredit her.
32203349 Flag for moderationMonday, Nov 16 at 2:11 PM Mark wrote ...
One comment after reading that rambling, incoherent letter from Lessmiller: I thought it was ILLEGAL to publicly state grounds for dismissal in ANY job.
32193171 Flag for moderationMonday, Nov 16 at 10:42 AM Journalism Prof wrote ...
1. When was the last time a newspaper retracted an entire story? 2. Did they have convincing evidence that there were errors BEFORE they pulled the wholoe story? 3. Is everyt quotation published by the Post tape recorded? 4. Mr. Sweieciak, please see me after class.
32181606 Flag for moderationMonday, Nov 16 at 9:26 AM Mark wrote ...
Whoa. I know it's been a long time since I was in J school, but since when is it a MUST that you have audio recordings? So should you have a video recording as well? Ask the reporters at the Journal if they have audio backup...I would think not, at least not all of the time. Point is, HardFacts, audio doesn't make a complete journalistic job.
32177529 Flag for moderationMonday, Nov 16 at 9:14 AM HardFacts wrote ...
I have to agree with UWM on this one, the reporter couldn't produce proof of the quotes using the recommended (and probably university provided) audio equipment to do a complete journalistic job. If she had the audio proof, THEN I would fully think this may have been out of line. Simply put, I don't see how there is anyway this student could be 100% victim here by any means. Sounds like the UWM Post got this one right. Nice job Mr. Swieciak on the detailed response.
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