No Accuracy for Rosa

Accuracy in Academia ^ | October 30, 2009 | Bethany Stotts

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No Accuracy for Rosa

Bethany Stotts, October 30, 2009

Earlier this week Accuracy in Academia called out Campus Progress associate editor and blogger Erin Rosa for attempting to characterize the contributors to CampusReform, a social network site designed by the Leadership Institute, as conservative bullies.

Several hours later Rosa responded to our critique, writing that “Recent reporting by Campus Progress on a new conservative social networking website has apparently stuck in the craw of another right-leaning group dedicated to exposing ‘political bias’ in education.”

“In fact, Accuracy In Academia—a sister organization to Accuracy In Media, a longstanding nonprofit that specializes in firing flak against the perils of ‘liberal media’ reporting—even dedicated an entire 950-word article to Campus Progress and myself,” she writes. “But unfortunately, for a website dedicated to ‘accuracy,’ there are a few distortions and convenient omissions that need to be addressed.”

Among Rosa’s complaints are that AIA did not

a) mention that Toni Listi—who had stated on his profile that he was active on CampusReform to “smash left-wing scum”—was in fact a staff member at this organization,

b) that this correspondent “made no attempt to contact” Rosa for “information regarding the ‘left-wing scum’ posting” or a “comment supposedly left by a student in Indiana” regarding professor Kenneth Johnson...