By Gary Pearce
The School of Journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill fostered North Carolinaâs tradition of great newspapers, reporters and editors. Now it fosters a debate engulfing the school, the entire university and journalism itself.
The debate flows from one-party control of universitiesâ boards of trustees.
UNC-CH trustees refused to grant tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones, who was offered a Knight Chair in Investigative Journalism. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Black journalist who led The New York Times 1619 examination of slavery in America. Both previous Knight Chairs, who were White, were tenured.
Each universityâs Board of Trustees has 13 members. Before December 2016, the UNC Board of Governors elected eight trustees and the Governor appointed four. Each student body president is the 13th member.
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Kristi Noem governs a state that’s about 1,500 miles away, but the South Dakota Republican appeared to be a big hit with North Carolina’s GOP at their convention on Saturday, according to reports.
One reason was Noem’s criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who has been a target of many Republicans, according to the North State Journal of Raleigh, N.C. Fauci is wrong – a lot, Noem told the audience in Greenville. The line drew strong applause, according to the newspaper.
Why worry about so-called “election integrity” when the election results on ballot questions are routinely ignored in Missouri, you might ask.
Raise the minimum wage, said Missourians in 2018. Yet GOP lawmakers are still trying to hold off on the phased-in plan to do this. Because, you see, legislators know in their hearts that voters only said that because the poor things didn’t know any better.
“They don’t really have all of the information that they need to make the most informed decision, because it’s simply not available to them,” said House Budget Committee Chairman Cody Smith, in explaining his attempts to delay or stop the minimum wage increase altogether. “There are campaigns, political campaigns essentially, that are highlighting benefits of this and don’t highlight the negative consequences.” So, down with political campaigns, says the politician?