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Imagine how different journalism would look today if something like academic freedom and shared governance existed in the newsroom. And it's not entirely clear to me why they don't.
Just to expand on this: I've been reading a bunch of histories of academic freedom in the US and Canada. A common story is the struggle between institutional academic freedom and individual academic freedom. Admins want former - freedom from government. Faculty want latter.
This is reflected in the competing statements on academic freedom by CAUT (Canadian Association of University Teachers) and AUCC (Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada). CAUT's (pic 1) emphasizes faculty freedom FROM university leadership. AAUC's (pic 2) does not.
When we talk about freedom of the press, we are almost always talking like the AUCC. But considering how much the journalistic mission resembles the academic one, that's probably not a good thing.

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Jeffrey Sachs
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Starting on Jan. 1, 2019, every university and college in Ontario was required by provincial law to adopt a free speech policy based on the Chicago Statement. @HEQCO has been monitoring the policies and collecting data on violations.

Of which, to date, there has been none. ZERO.
@HEQCO See for yourself. About 50 universities and colleges submitted reports last month to HEQCO. Since implementation in January, there were 21 complaints, all of which were resolved in-house. Resolved, moreover, to everyone's satisfaction.

heqco.ca/SiteCollection…
@HEQCO At least, this is how I understand the relevant section in the report. Anyone feeling that their issue has not been properly addressed is supposed to submit a complaint to the Ombudsman. However, to the best of HEQCO's knowledge, no such complaints have been sent.
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This seems ludicrously wrong and self-serving to me. Still, I take it as a mark of progress that so many people now regard their old affiliation with New Atheism as so toxic that they'll go to such lengths to disavow it.

slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new…
I mean, the overlap between New Atheism and anti-SJWism is obvious, both ideologically (humanism + Enlightenment = good; Islam + moral relativism = bad) and in terms of personnel (Coyne, Boghossian, Harris, etc.). This isn't complicated.
Just demographically, the core of the progressive Left today is women, LGBTQ, and racialized/religious minorities. Not exactly the beating heart of the New Atheist movement, if I recall correctly.
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Incredible. The most hyped up example of campus PC, endlessly dissected and obsessed over by a tut-tutting media, was based on omissions, sleight-of-hand, and outright lies.
Sorry, let me summarize.
1) A student in an Oberlin journalism course mentions to prof that the cafeteria Banh Mi looks/tastes nothing like authentic Banh Mi, to the frustration of some international students. Prof encourages student to write about it for school paper.
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