Crisis at Columbia: A conversation with Jelani Cobb cjr.org/the-kicker/cri…

Commencement at Columbia cancelled on 15th May. This is the big ceremony for everybody at the University which usually spans the whole area between the libraries and on the lawns where the protest encampment was based. Campus remains locked down for most. communications.news.columbia.edu/news/campus-up…

This is also a thoughtful piece from a J School student on a different perspective to the protests and the dangers of hardening polarization forward.com/opinion/609871…

Very much missing Todd - and an excellent recommendation

Foreign Press Association in Jerusalem comment (full statement attached):

“With this decision, Israel joins a dubious club of authoritarian governments to ban the station.“

And
“This is a dark day for the media. This is a dark day for democracy.”

Tear-gassing student reporters and protesters at UVA yesterday

Increasing ‘safety’ by excluding journalists is a theme of our times. As is the propagandizing by police and security forces who can be left to produce unchallenged versions of events

emily bell Here’s the 1961 version of this column: Westbrook Pegler’s syndicated attempted takedown of a Freedom Rider.

breachofpeace.com/blog/?p=58

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Hearing it was actually quite close between Wolves and Man City. Will tweet when I know more.

This lays out the critical issues of press access for our student journos last Tuesday . Some J School students and two faculty were also removed in the sweep of observers (not protesters) outside Hamilton. Columbia Daily Spectator asking the right questions and doing the reporting

24 hours later and the block is still on lockdown. Our neighbors and guests are being harassed, asked for ID, told they have to go another way if they can't prove they live on the block. All to make sure the president doesn't have to hear any more protests.

Very clear sighted excellent piece

In the past 24 hours I have learned of the existence of Susan Hall, been told by a number of (now shame faced) UK political commentators that she was going to be elected Mayor of London, but in fact she lost by a huge margin and we can go back to ‘normal’ ….

For our latest cover story, we collaborated with Columbia Daily Spectator, tasking some of the student reporters, writers, editors, and photographers at the forefront of protest coverage to revisit the events that started it all. trib.al/deIxzJs

today’s low information moment =
the NYPD accusing the Oxford University Press and a man trained in that well known extremist Madrasa, Oriel College, of radicalizing American students …

this is a deeply moving and well-done article, the Columbia Daily Spectator The Eye should be proud.

The Stakes of Solidarity: What Low-Income Students Risked the Day of Columbia’s April 18 Mass Arrests
columbiaspectator.com/the-eye/2024/0…