Thread by @donmoyn

Journalism is partly about framing what is and is not important. We have some journalists who have made a whole beat on stories of excess campus wokeness, but its hard to think of anyone who has done the same on stories of state power policing campus speech, which are more impt

https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1383786506951684098

There are journalists who report on, for example, bills that restrict speech on campus, but who do not see their job as critiquing them. And there are some academics who try to make sense of these trends and explain the risks to free speech, e.g.

https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1374760059205513218?s=20

Some opinion people will write on this topic occasionally, but it's not their main beat, e.g. @michelleinbklyn @zackbeauchamp. But there isn't a whole cohort of writers/podcasters on the topic of state threats to campus speech in the way there is for the anti-wokeness brigade.

Some anti-woke journalists might tweet that a bill in FL is counterproductive, but its not what they write about. And the anti-wokeness brigade are supplemented by well-funded niche conservative media like Campus Reform and the big boys like Fox & WSJ theintercept.com/2021/04/10/cam…

If you are a casual media user, you have been exposed to the claim that campus wokeness is a fundamental threat to society, but you probably know little about much bigger threat of the state censoring speech.
Thats bad.
@JeffreyASachs puts it like this: medium.com/arc-digital/th…