It is not permissible for a journalists to endorse
a candidate -- except through biased reported.
Posted on 11/20/2007 10:10:33 AM PST by Zakeet
BOSTON – Carole Simpson, a former ABC news anchor who is now a journalism professor at Emerson College, is on the hot seat after endorsing Hillary Clinton for president at a New Hampshire political rally.
Simpson said she immediately regretted her actions and offered her resignation the day after the rally last month in Salem, N.H., but Emerson officials refused to accept it.
“I know I made a mistake. It was definitely the wrong venue for my first foray into free speech,” Simpson told The Boston Globe in Monday’s editions. “But I’d really like to see her win. After being a reporter for so many years, where you wish you could do more than you can, it would be nice to make a difference.”
Simpson, 66, is considering an offer from the Clinton campaign to stump for the candidate. Simpson, who is black, was outspoken as a journalist about her belief that the broadcasting industry should hire more women and minorities. She and university officials have agreed she will not teach political journalism courses if she campaigns for Clinton.
Simpson did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press on Monday. A message was left at Emerson for her.
While Clinton quickly issued a press release on Simpson’s endorsement, some conservative bloggers have seized on it as proof of liberal media bias.
Simpson’s endorsement came when she took her 14-student journalism class, “Road to the White House,” to the rally to show students how to cover a political event.
As Clinton was fielding questions from the audience, Simpson tried several times to get her attention in the crowded room. When she finally caught Clinton’s eye, she gave an impromptu endorsement.
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It is not permissible for a journalists to endorse
a candidate -- except through biased reported.
Well, she's certainly mastered the non-apology apology.
She certainly showed the class how Democrat journalists cover Democrat poitical events.
But there is no liberal bias in the media.
If this stupid woman thinks this was her "first foray into free speech," she has no idea what "free speech" is. She's a moron. Oh, wait - she was a "journalist" so of course she's a moron.
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But, you know, the media is mostly neutral on politics [/gag]
The one thing on which we can all agree, it wasn’t a surprise.
She’s only sorry that her bias is now expressly knows, instead of determined by evidence.
Stupid professor.
I'd vote for Looter Guy before I'd vote for Looter Girl H!...........
And don't think it didn't show for all those years, baby. Just keep lying to yourself that you were objective.
“After being a reporter for so many years, where you wish you could do more than you can, it would be nice to make a difference.”
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Almost all young “journalists” get into the business to “make a difference.” The liberal professors and liberal campus newspapers recruit them, shape them and send them out like mindless robots.
It’s a rather brilliant strategy by the Left...control education, the media and local governments with people who don’t have any aspirations of individual success.
Who better to teach students about Political Journalism that a political journalist?
hmmm... and parents of Emmerson students are paying $40,000 a year for their kids to hear her drivel.
What a load of BS. She became the story.
She had the most irritating (fingernails on a blackboard level) voice in all of broadcasting...with the possible exception of Peewee Herman.
I wonder who this asinine Simpson thinks she is fooling, other than the dumba$$e$ at Emerson College where the fool works! Seems to me a lot of African-Americans named Simpson aren’t to be believed, for one reason or another! Her “first foray” into free speech only means that nobody paid her for her left-winged bull$hit like they used to when she was with ABC, so this was her freebie. What a total waste of oxygen this garbage woman seems to be. She isn’t even smart enough to tell a decent lie, like her hero Bill Clinton could.
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