That is what many a citizen journalist may say when they get citizen canned.
Rather than dwell on the sure-to-be ad nauseum chit chat on Brown's victory in MA, and Durbin's threat of nuclear options, we would rather take a look on something else Durbin is up to.
Under the radar, our mangy senator Durbin is trying to strike back at citizen journalists by pushing them to extinction. Along with Diane Feinstein (whom, if you all will recall, is now the person that decides who our senators are) is pushing to insert language into press shield laws that only apply to those are a "salaried worker" of an "entity" that "disseminates information by print, broadcast, etc."
Grave this development is, but fear not. We Hounds have other ways to get our news out.
Posted by Alpha Hound
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
The big news over at the the UI is Ikenberry's announcement of furloughs for faculty and staff. Hardly surprising this is, since similar institutions have announced similar methods across the nation.
Given the constant of faculty haughtiness, it is no surprise that some have taken the announcement as an opportunity to voice their contempt and malcontent to the public that feeds them.
At the forefront of the grousing is James Barrett. Let us not forget this is the same faculty blowhard that railroaded money to be invested with the UI through the establishment of the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government. Why did it fall apart and the UI turn down free money? Because Barrett and like-minded cranks of the professtocracy felt it was a threat to their singular and narrow vision of the Ivory Tower.
Playing also into Barrett's tantrum could very possibly be fear, given his position. A quick look at Barrett's vita shows a lackluster and scant publication record; read or valued by no one outside his own small corner of post-modernist hackademia.
Barrett's tirade seems to make the case for furloughs, rather than dissuade it. In fact, when it comes to spending cuts at the UI, Barrett is the obvious candidate for redundancy.
Posted by Hound No. 8
Given the constant of faculty haughtiness, it is no surprise that some have taken the announcement as an opportunity to voice their contempt and malcontent to the public that feeds them.
At the forefront of the grousing is James Barrett. Let us not forget this is the same faculty blowhard that railroaded money to be invested with the UI through the establishment of the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government. Why did it fall apart and the UI turn down free money? Because Barrett and like-minded cranks of the professtocracy felt it was a threat to their singular and narrow vision of the Ivory Tower.
Playing also into Barrett's tantrum could very possibly be fear, given his position. A quick look at Barrett's vita shows a lackluster and scant publication record; read or valued by no one outside his own small corner of post-modernist hackademia.
Barrett's tirade seems to make the case for furloughs, rather than dissuade it. In fact, when it comes to spending cuts at the UI, Barrett is the obvious candidate for redundancy.
Posted by Hound No. 8
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Another Clout Scandal.
Gotcha!
This one is not a ILL related Clout Scandal. This one occurs at the home of criminal at large, Charles Steger.
Whereas at ILL connections to administrators will help you gain admission, at Virginia Tech your relation to administrators means someone else will get shot instead of you.
Posted by Hound No. 3
This one is not a ILL related Clout Scandal. This one occurs at the home of criminal at large, Charles Steger.
Whereas at ILL connections to administrators will help you gain admission, at Virginia Tech your relation to administrators means someone else will get shot instead of you.
Posted by Hound No. 3
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Strong Hull FIREs back
Duke professor Gary Hull authored recently "Muhammad: The 'Banned' Images," a critique of the Yale U Press' prostration to political correctness by censoring Jyette Klausen's "Pictures that Shocked the World." So monstrous this odious censorship that even the reliable shills at the AAUP condemned the move. According to the press release on FIRE (no pun intended. This time), the book by Hull is "A defiance against the censors, terror-mongers, and their western appeasers." The statement against the censorship that Hull wrote about has been echoed by big time names including prominent members of FIRE, Nadine Strossen, Cary Nelson, and Eugene Volokh.
The banning of the photos from the Klausen book by the YUPpies was extraordinary, but by no means surprising. Rather, simply another example of the further degradation of the higher ed.
What is also quite extraordinary is the institution one where one my find Professor Hull:
Wonderland.
We find a professor and director of a " program for values and ethics in the marketplace" (that is "values and ethics in the marketplace," not Duke, which has neither) here should take up the banner uplifting. Yet we fear for him considering the actions already taken against Klausen. We can already imagine Miriam Kooke frothing as Lubiano sharpens her claws to make sure, in the spirit of Wiegman, that Hull never again strays from the template.
Posted by Hound No 2
The banning of the photos from the Klausen book by the YUPpies was extraordinary, but by no means surprising. Rather, simply another example of the further degradation of the higher ed.
What is also quite extraordinary is the institution one where one my find Professor Hull:
Wonderland.
We find a professor and director of a " program for values and ethics in the marketplace" (that is "values and ethics in the marketplace," not Duke, which has neither) here should take up the banner uplifting. Yet we fear for him considering the actions already taken against Klausen. We can already imagine Miriam Kooke frothing as Lubiano sharpens her claws to make sure, in the spirit of Wiegman, that Hull never again strays from the template.
Posted by Hound No 2
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Bow WOW
The probability seems small, but believe it or not:
Spindoctress Robin Kaler actually speaks in more than three words!
A far cry from the usual "No comment" or "untrue" or "distortions" or "linebacker."
Posted by Hound No. 9
Spindoctress Robin Kaler actually speaks in more than three words!
A far cry from the usual "No comment" or "untrue" or "distortions" or "linebacker."
Posted by Hound No. 9
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