Source: Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley
“‘Who Gets to Tell the Story?’ That question was supposed to be the theme of a ‘press freedom’ event this week at Columbia University, home to one of the world’s leading journalism schools. However, as first reported by the Columbia Spectator, the event was canceled after student journalists had the audacity of offering their own views on the coverage of the alleged Cornell rape case. After the independent student newspaper The Sundial ran a column by deputy editor Nikos Mohammadi and writer Christina Ma criticizing the one-sided coverage of the allegations, the Columbia students went into a familiar groupthink, cancel mode. The students were shocked that Mohammadi and Ma took the invitation to ‘tell the story’ literally by offering a different perspective on the still developing case.” (10/17/26)