because really.. who hasn't written about this yet...
Some back ground info on the issue..
The Beginning
The middle
the end
and if you don't feel like reading those three articles.. a bit of background
Jillian Bandes is an editorial writer for the Daily Tarheel. (the school's newspaper). she's Conservative, jewish, and from Florida. She goes to chapel hill, very liberal.
She wrote an article about racial profiling. lets put it this way.. it started like this...
"I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an airport."
As much as i want to get into how i think she's really just pissed that isreal was forced to leave gaza .. or how she really just writes to get a rise out of people.. Or even how she's the most ignorant bitch from florida ever to step foot into carolina, (b/c really.. we all know that all radical islamic people MUST be arab) that's not the issue at hand.
In her first article, she stated that "(she) wants all arabs to get sexed up like nothing else".. referring to the degree she thinks they should be searched, not really fucked by airport security.. (see jillian.. that's how you really use quotes in an article)
and of course.. arabs at carolina agree with her.
she proceeds to quote three different arab americans that go to/teach carolina, in a way that makes them sound like they agree with her. (read the article)
so, her editor decides to publish the article, after asking her (and taking her word for it) that everything was (and no pun intended) kosher. Her editor does not agree with a word she said, and lets her publish her article.
the next link is a letter written by the muslim student's association the day after the article was published. the usual, "we're offended" stuff comes out. but they talked to the same students/professor that she talked to. They said that their quotes were taken completely out of context, they don't agree with what she said in her article, and they were misled into thinking their interview was about race relations b/w arabs and america post 9/11.
Bingo
She gets fired. NOT for what she wrote... it was the liberal editor that decided to publish it. It was because she lied in her article. plain and simple. she never misquoted anyone. the words were exact. the problem is the context.
so lets take ms. bandes' article and do the same thing she did. here's a fake paragraph from a fake newspaper article, that i just wrote (and that i don't agree with).
"I think that Nazi's are Awesome. They know exactly what they are talking about.. and jewish people agree!!
Jillian bandes said, 'They’re some of the brightest, kindest people I’ve ever met.'"
See where this becomes an issue? Straight quote.. taken out of context. No need to get ann coulter involved (although she may benefit from her amazing logic)
Oh, and for the record.. an article that the opinion editor wrote a week before this all happened
his position on positions
and the quote from it
"Columns are the opinion of the columnists. That’s it.
I edit them for clarity, space, vulgarity and accuracy, and I will suggest changes if I think they need to be made.
But I won’t censor anyone’s opinion, even if I disagree with it, which is the case probably as often as it isn’t. Yes, I’ll edit the columns, but I won’t stick my own views in there.
Nor will I dissuade someone from writing a column merely because it’ll be controversial or unpopular. If we’re to have a real dialogue on this page - and I think we need a dialogue - then I’d be doing you all a disservice by stifling peoples’ opinions."
Once again jillian Bandes.. a lesson in how to quote in an article. from someone who's experience with writing news articles is one semester of news writing, forced upon them because advertising is considered mass communications in this school.
The Beginning
The middle
the end
and if you don't feel like reading those three articles.. a bit of background
Jillian Bandes is an editorial writer for the Daily Tarheel. (the school's newspaper). she's Conservative, jewish, and from Florida. She goes to chapel hill, very liberal.
She wrote an article about racial profiling. lets put it this way.. it started like this...
"I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an airport."
As much as i want to get into how i think she's really just pissed that isreal was forced to leave gaza .. or how she really just writes to get a rise out of people.. Or even how she's the most ignorant bitch from florida ever to step foot into carolina, (b/c really.. we all know that all radical islamic people MUST be arab) that's not the issue at hand.
In her first article, she stated that "(she) wants all arabs to get sexed up like nothing else".. referring to the degree she thinks they should be searched, not really fucked by airport security.. (see jillian.. that's how you really use quotes in an article)
and of course.. arabs at carolina agree with her.
she proceeds to quote three different arab americans that go to/teach carolina, in a way that makes them sound like they agree with her. (read the article)
so, her editor decides to publish the article, after asking her (and taking her word for it) that everything was (and no pun intended) kosher. Her editor does not agree with a word she said, and lets her publish her article.
the next link is a letter written by the muslim student's association the day after the article was published. the usual, "we're offended" stuff comes out. but they talked to the same students/professor that she talked to. They said that their quotes were taken completely out of context, they don't agree with what she said in her article, and they were misled into thinking their interview was about race relations b/w arabs and america post 9/11.
Bingo
She gets fired. NOT for what she wrote... it was the liberal editor that decided to publish it. It was because she lied in her article. plain and simple. she never misquoted anyone. the words were exact. the problem is the context.
so lets take ms. bandes' article and do the same thing she did. here's a fake paragraph from a fake newspaper article, that i just wrote (and that i don't agree with).
"I think that Nazi's are Awesome. They know exactly what they are talking about.. and jewish people agree!!
Jillian bandes said, 'They’re some of the brightest, kindest people I’ve ever met.'"
See where this becomes an issue? Straight quote.. taken out of context. No need to get ann coulter involved (although she may benefit from her amazing logic)
Oh, and for the record.. an article that the opinion editor wrote a week before this all happened
his position on positions
and the quote from it
"Columns are the opinion of the columnists. That’s it.
I edit them for clarity, space, vulgarity and accuracy, and I will suggest changes if I think they need to be made.
But I won’t censor anyone’s opinion, even if I disagree with it, which is the case probably as often as it isn’t. Yes, I’ll edit the columns, but I won’t stick my own views in there.
Nor will I dissuade someone from writing a column merely because it’ll be controversial or unpopular. If we’re to have a real dialogue on this page - and I think we need a dialogue - then I’d be doing you all a disservice by stifling peoples’ opinions."
Once again jillian Bandes.. a lesson in how to quote in an article. from someone who's experience with writing news articles is one semester of news writing, forced upon them because advertising is considered mass communications in this school.