NYU Journalism School Hires Former New Yorker Writer Who Falsely Claimed ICE Agent Had Nazi Tattoo
“I don’t know why someone who had to quit their journalism job for falsely implying someone is a Nazi should be teaching at NYU”
What a sterling example of why trust in the press is at such a record low. She’s going to teach a course about reporting on the “far right.”
The Wrap reports:
NYU Journalism School Hires Ex-New Yorker Fact Checker Who Falsely Said ICE Agent Had Nazi Tattoo
New York University has hired Talia Lavin as an adjunct journalism professor less than a year after the former New Yorker fact checker resigned after falsely accusing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent of having a Nazi tattoo.
Lavin’s undergraduate course “Reporting on the Far Right” will kick off in the fall semester of 2019 at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. In its official faculty bio, the university billed Lavin as an expert in “far-right extremism and social justice.”
At least one current NYU journalism student questioned the decision to hire Lavin. “I sympathize with Lavin’s politics, but I don’t know why someone who had to quit their journalism job for falsely implying someone is a Nazi should be teaching at NYU,” said the student, who requested anonymity for fear of academic reprisal. “I know there are plenty of reporters out there in need of work who haven’t made a mistake like that.”
Lavin declined to comment for this story. Reps for NYU, the school’s journalism department and university president Andrew Hamilton did not respond to requests for comment.
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Look, the ICE agent might not actually have had a Nazi tattoo, but I trust her journalistic instincts which surely indicate he would like to have one, and so he’s just as guilty as if he had.
I guess when one looks too far out on the right it becomes a “fact-free zone.”