NYU cancels 'Reporting on the Far Right' journalism class after two students sign up

The Hill ^ | 05/30/19 | Joe Concha

[yesthatjallen]

New York University has canceled a "Reporting on the Far Right" elective undergraduate class after just two students signed up to take the course.

NYU attracted headlines earlier this year after its decision to hire former New Yorker fact-checker Talia Lavin to teach the class.

In June 2018, Lavin resigned from the magazine after making a false accusation against ICE agent Justin Gaertner for sporting what she believed was a Nazi tattoo, which turned out to be a 'Titan 2' symbol for former Marine veteran's platoon while serving in Afghanistan.

“Canceling the class had nothing to do with Talia’s writings, tweets, or anything else. We canceled it because too few students enrolled,” said Adam Penenberg, who serves as NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute director of undergraduate studies, to TheWrap.com.

Lavin took to social media to mock coverage of the course being canceled.

"It was utterly bizarre that me teaching an elective course was 'national news' in the first place, and speaks to how much right-wing culture war stories are driven by facile, matador-style politics," she wrote in a tweet on Thursday.

Penenberg told TheWrap the course will not be offered on a future date.

“It would make no sense to try it again, given how few students expressed interest,” he said. “We have no plans to offer Talia another course, simply because her main focus [and the focus of her upcoming book] is the far right.”

[a fool in paradise]

How about a course digging into the partisan shill cabal that was Journolist?

[Telepathic Intruder]

If there was still truth in journalism, they’d call it “Lying about the Right”.

[Boogieman]

The funniest part is that the left wants this woman to teach a course and write a book about the “far right”, but she has already proven she doesn’t know anything about that subject, because she can’t tell a nazi from an ordinary patriotic American veteran.

[FreeReign]

“Canceling the class had nothing to do with Talia’s writings, tweets, or anything else. We canceled it because too few students enrolled,”

It's better claim to cancel the class because of Talia's Fake News track record, NYU, you morons.

[no-to-illegals]

One senses that the student body loves this professor

[JimRed]

More like “Lying about the “far right”.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Good news. The main news being no one wanted to bother picking on the “far right”.

[max americana]

“she doesn’t know anything about that subject, because she can’t tell a nazi from an ordinary patriotic American veteran”

because liberals are effing stupid? Just puttin’ this out there..

[Kickass Conservative]

Explain “far right”?

I believe in the sanctity of our beloved Constitution, is that far right?

I believe our Constitution is the foundation of our Republic, is that far right?

I believe in God Almighty, is that far right?

I believe our Rights come from him, not some sniveling Politicians who lust for power over their fellow man, is that far right?

I believe Limited Government is a necessary Evil while an oppressive domineering Government is pure Evil, is that far right?

I could go on for hours, so I must be far right.

[TLI]

but she has already proven she doesn’t know anything about that subject

It is doubful that not knowing anything about a specific subject has in any way ever stopped a prog from running their mouth about it.

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[simpson96]

Liberal slob Talia Lavin.