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30 May, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Actually no surprise that the architect of @UNC’s deplorable treatment of @nhannahjones is Arkansas newspaper magnate Walter Hussman.
But PREPOSTEROUS to call him an advocate for balanced/non-political news. He’s been a mini-Rupert Murdoch for 40 yrs.
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 quirky-cray-af5aca.netlify.app/long-form/niko…
I didn’t know him personally, but I worked for Hussman almost 35 years ago at the Arkansas Democrat. He was burning millions from his family’s cable-company fortune to destroy the Arkansas Gazette—one of the greatest southern newspapers & the few that supported Civil Rights.
2/5
Hussman’s family bought the dying Arkansas Democrat in the 70s & installed him as boy-publisher, still in his 20s. He hired extremist conservative editors who made war on the truth, and in the 80s begin spinning bogus “Whitewater”conspiracy tales about Bill & Hillary Clinton. 3/5
Hussman dressed up his attack on @nhannahjones with talk about accuracy and fairness. But he leaves out his newspaper’s early support for #Trump, and a four-decade track record of financing ultra partisanship in journalism.

arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/…

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I’m sure it was nice for
@UNCHussman journalism school to get $25m from him, but Walter Hussman is a founding father of the fake news/Trump-lies era. Hardly anyone could have less credibility to attack Nicole Hannah Jones. Shame on the @UNC board for bowing to his will.

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