Soros Funded Journalism Program at U. Texas-Austin Teaches Students to Leave ‘Neutrality Behind’
“Students must learn to act in ‘solidarity,’ according to the reporting guide.”
Our professional media class has already done this, of course.
The College Fix reports:
Leave ‘neutrality behind,’ Soros-funded UT Austin journalism program says
The “Solidarity Journalism Initiative” at University of Texas at Austin teaches students to “convey outrage” and and abandon neutrality with the funding of top tech companies and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
The initiative, which is part of the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Media Engagement, “helps journalists, journalism educators, and journalism students improve coverage of marginalized communities,” according to its website.
“The people who know the most about an issue – based on lived expertise – are missing or minimized in news coverage,” according to the website’s Solidarity Reporting Guide.
“The decision to report – or not report – on these conditions inherently leaves neutrality behind,” the Solidarity Journalism program states.
The program began at UT-Austin in 2021, after Professor Anita Varma brought it from Santa Clara University. The College Fix reached out by email to Varma twice over two weeks but did not receive a response.
The Fix reached out twice each by email to media relations at the Knight Center for Journalism as well as its founder, Professor Rosental Alves, and Director Mallory Tenore. No responses were received.
Financial backers of the initiative include Google and Facebook according to the “About Us” page.
Students must learn to act in “solidarity,” according to the reporting guide.
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They need an unassailable bulwark of ignorance.
So, they’re not educating journalists, rather they’re training activists and propagandists. Should be worth zero academic credits toward graduation or a degree.
“The decision to report – or not report – on these conditions inherently leaves neutrality behind,” the Solidarity Journalism program states.
That makes no sense. Whatever it is, why can’t it be reported neutrally? Because that won’t spin the desired narrative very effectively, it seems.
Unfortunately it is UT-Austin and this is pretty typical.
UT Austin once had a quality Journalism program.
Long gone now.