Journalism School Revokes Charlie Rose’s Walter Cronkite Award
Rose is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week
Charlie Rose is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. In addition to losing both his PBS and CBS television gigs due to sexual harassment allegations, Rose had his Walter Cronkite journalism award revoked by the Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is taking back the award it gave to Charlie Rose in 2015, the school’s dean Christopher Callahan said in a statement Friday.
TV journalist and talk show host Rose has been accused of sexually harassing several women and was fired by CBS. He apologized for ” inappropriate behavior” but said “I do not believe that all of these allegations are accurate.”
“The Cronkite School is rescinding the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism given to Charlie Rose in 2015,” the statement read.
“This unprecedented action is taken with the utmost seriousness and deliberation. We are not in the business of trying to rewrite history.
“When new information about a recipient surfaces, the question we ask is not whether the award would be given again with a new set of facts, but whether the transgressions are so egregious that they demand nothing less than a reversal of history.”
“I believe Mr. Rose’s actions of sexual misconduct reported by The Washington Post and other media outlets, which are largely unrefuted, rise to that level,” Callahan wrote.
Though the statement acknowledged that rescinding the 2-year old award would be largely symbolic, the school felt it was especially important since the young women Rose victimized were “much like those who make up the overwhelming majority of Cronkite students.”
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talk about the left eating its own.
this is the Chinese cultural revolution.
I haven’t watched TV in a number of years, but does Rose’s activities merit all this ?
just asking.
i’m just glad that he has not been identified as a conservative.