University of Chicago Campus Newspaper Cravenly Apologizes

Whenever I write about the latest university controversy involving "wokism", leftist insanity, anti-Semitism, etc., I routinely check to see what the campus newspaper is reporting about the issue, or if they are reporting at all. If you think the mainstream media newspapers in this country are biased to the left, you should read a campus newspaper sometime. They are almost always to the far left. Everybody is a victim, and the university "must do more on behalf of this or that marginalized group of people", blah blah blah. It is often downright embarrassing. Of course, we must remember that the writers are student journalists and under pressure to conform, but it's scary to think that many of these people will go on to write for papers like the NY Times, LA Times, or Washington Post. Most of the time, I blame the so-called adults in the universities who are stuffing these young brains with so much politically-correct nonsense.

Richard Cravatts has a disturbing op-ed in Israel National News, that describes the latest anti-Israel story out of the University of Chicago. The campus newspaper, the Chicago Maroon, had just published an op-ed in defense of Israel by two students. Of course, that didn't sit well with the usual suspects on campus, namely the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), who objected. So now, two head editors of the Chicago Maroon have posted a lengthy response in which they retract the pro-Israel op-ed, engage in "fact-checking", and apologize profusely to SJP, the "Palestinian community", and anyone else offended by a pro-Israel point of view. More than just apologize, the writers literally bow and scrape.

That a newspaper, be it campus, or big city, or otherwise, would pull an op-ed defending Israel and decrying anti-Semitism while cravenly apologizing to the Brown Shirt crowd is beyond scary. If these are the new rules, journalism -as Sean Hannity says- is dead.