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mike parwana's avatar

Can we talk about the protest at SUNY Albany for a second? Old media do not understand what is happening with these sorts of protests. The far right through organizations like TP USA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA) has created astroturf “clubs” on college campuses that lobby for lectures by extremists whose objective is not free expression but the end of liberal free exchange of ideas. Without the interjection of $$ by libertarian extremist billionaires there wouldn’t be “clubs” lobbying for literal fascists and white nationalists, people like Richard Spenser, to come speak at universities. Ian Haworth is not a principled conservative in the vein of David Brooks and his free speech is not being curtailed in any meaningful sense. He is a podcaster, writer, regular contributor to Fox FakeNews. He is exactly the sort of speaker Harlan Crow, collector of Nazi memorabilia, might fund.

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Hi Ken, I live in Central NY-- outside Syracuse. Our local paper (we used to have two papers, one morning paper and one evening paper and a Sunday edition) is now one paper published about three times a week and Sundays as well as produces a daily online newsletter. I subscribe to it to support local news but it does seem inadequate. I truly feel that communities need more than just one newspaper as there should be more than one editorial point of view presented in the community. I feel it is even more imperative that Syracuse and the county we are located due to the fact that a major school of import and reputation at Syracuse University is the Newhouse School of Public Communications and another major school of import is the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. It is a sad situation that our public commentary in this county is so limited with such resources available.

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