UMD administrator lambastes student newspaper in e-mail She sent a profane e-mail calling the campus newspaper fake news. May 7, 2021 9:53am Text size Copy shortlink:
A University of Minnesota Duluth administrator called the school s student newspaper the Ministry of Propaganda, and likened it to fake news in an e-mail with numerous expletives that was sent to one of her colleagues and obtained by student reporters as part of a public data request.
A monthslong battle between student journalists and school officials came to a head this week when the newspaper published the results of the request that was answered in March, seven months after it was made. The more than 800-page response showed the extent of the animosity between the administrator, Jessi Eaton, and the student newspaper.
The Bark student newspaper uncovered “inappropriate” emails from Kirby Student Center staff. 9:39 pm, May 5, 2021 ×
Grace Henriksen, business manager for The Bark, works on her laptop in July of 2020 in the boxed-up space that the publication occupies in the Kirby Student Center at the University of Minnesota Duluth. (File / Tyler Schank / News Tribune)
A data request made by student journalists at the University of Minnesota Duluth has revealed almost 900 pages of staff emails regarding The Bark student news organization.
The emails, many sent by staff members of Kirby Student Center, include comments comparing The Bark to the “Ministry of Propaganda” and stating that if The Bark wants to “play hardball,” then one Kirby staff member has “one f - of a cutter,” a reference to a specific type of baseball pitch.