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CBS News Feature About Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College Wins Emmy Award

CBS News Feature About Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College Wins Emmy Award

Gibson family attorneys: “As David Gibson’s last television interview, it’s a fitting tribute to a man who fought tirelessly to preserve his family’s reputation and demonstrate that the truth still matters.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZUzUN3iG48&feature=emb_title

CBS Sunday Morning produced an excellent feature story about the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College dispute.

My original review of the story was on November 3, 2019, Ted Koppel: Despite verdict, Oberlin College President still “makes allusions to a pattern of racist behavior” by Gibson’s Bakery:

One of the most disturbing aspects of the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case has been the almost obsessive demonization of Gibson’s Bakery and its owners by the college.

It started not just during the protests and pre-litigation interactions that gave rise to the lawsuit, but in the Answer filed by the defendants in response to the lawsuit….

Koppel did a good job on the report, though I have some issues with it. In particular, the report tacitly buys into Oberlin College’s post-trial public relations campaign to portray this as a free speech issue, and to claim that Oberlin College unfairly was held liable for student speech and conduct. As pointed out before, that is not accurate. The Gibsons, as the jury instructions reflected, sought to hold the college liable for the speech and actions of college employees, particularly co-defendant Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo, not for the speech or conduct of students.

In fairness to Koppel, at one point he did point out the involvement of college employees, particularly in handing out defamatory flyers, as an issue in the case.

You should watch the entire 13-minute segment. It includes an interview with a female juror, who spoke to the impact of the testimony by David Gibson how his father, 92-year-old Allyn Gibson, feared he would die having been labeled a racist.

On August 10, 2020, I noted that the segment had been nominated for an Emmy Award, CBS News Feature About Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College Nominated for Emmy Award:

David Gibson died two weeks after the CBS News story aired. He was able to see the story before he died, and was gratified that Koppel pushed back against Ambars’ comments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZUzUN3iG48&feature=emb_title

The Feature won the Emmy Award in the category:

The TV news story with a local connection and up for an Emmy Award was a winner.

“What Price” produced by Ted Koppel for CBS Sunday Morning won “Outstanding Feature Story in a Newscast’ Monday night.

It includes an interview with Canton attorney Lee Plakas in the Gibson’s Bakery v Oberlin College case.
He successfully represented the bakery.

The Gibson family is from Stark County.

Plakas tells WHBC News that Lorna Gibson watched the show at her husband David’s gravesite; he died five months after the verdict was announced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZUzUN3iG48

[CBS News]

The win was posted on the Facebook page of the Gibson’s attorneys.

Congratulations to the team at CBS Sunday Morning for their EmmyⓇ-award-winning coverage of our client’s lawsuit against Oberlin College. Ted Koppel’s segment documenting the Gibson family’s fight to protect their business against false allegations of racism won a News & Documentary EmmyⓇ for “Outstanding Feature Story in a Newscast.” As David Gibson’s last television interview, it’s a fitting tribute to a man who fought tirelessly to preserve his family’s reputation and demonstrate that the truth still matters.

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Comments

notamemberofanyorganizedpolicital | September 22, 2020 at 9:02 pm

Can we get a documentary on this?

Google Denies “Political Bias” In Search Algo Despite Collapse In Conservative Site Visibility

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/google-denies-political-bias-search-algo-despite-collapse-conservative-site-visibility

This objective reporting is a mistake the likes of CBS won’t make again.

The sad part of this is that I already suspect Oberlin will spin it as “Oberlin Activism wins Emmy” in the next “Around the Square” email.

No word though about how LI did almost all of the work exposing this to the country? I’ll bet most of the research involved reading this blog. All of the links were summarized so many times, how could ABC not start there?

Emmy, schmemmie. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

OwenKellogg-Engineer | September 26, 2020 at 9:27 am

Thank you Professor Jacobson for keeping this topic as an ongoing item in your blog. For me, and i have no explanation why, it is the most singular storyline that i read on any blog; maybe it is because of the truth found in Proverbs 22 that pierces deep.

https://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt2822.htm

AlexanderYpsilantis | September 26, 2020 at 12:37 pm

The Left doesn’t care about facts, they care about feelings. The end justifies the means. Oberlin should settle this case and stop fighting Justice. They’re behavior has been absolutely appalling in this whole sorry episode.