Columbia, the university that administers the Pulitzer Prizes, with a brutal crackdown on press freedom. There are no words for this Shame on Claire Shipman - ThreadSky

willbunch.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Columbia, the university that administers the Pulitzer Prizes, with a brutal crackdown on press freedom. There are no words for this

Shame on Claire Shipman

Reposted from Bill Grueskin

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library.

Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.

Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

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bananaintherama.bsky.social•1 day ago

Cowards

jackandy.bsky.social•1 day ago

“Let us hate the Jews and destroy the campus!”

finevintage.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sadly there is no shortage of that disgusting behavior.

dave-littler.bsky.social•1 day ago

The actual topic of the discussion at hand is that of journalists merely covering the protest, not the protestors themselves.

elaineparks.bsky.social•1 day ago

journalists covering a protest "hate jews"?

jackandy.bsky.social•23 hours ago

In this case? Without question.

elaineparks.bsky.social•7 hours ago

It's your position that jewish journalists and non-jewish journalists alike in this position should have ignored the protests and not covered them? WHy?

elaineparks.bsky.social•7 hours ago

What about this Israeli American professor? Does she hate Jews? She wrote a book American Jewish activists who engage in Palestinian solidarity work because of—not in spite of—their Jewish identity. Is she a Jew hater? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/im-an-israeli-professor-why-is-my-work-in-harvards-antisemitism-report

vagabending.bsky.social•1 day ago

One of the obvious results of Columbia leadership being filled with cowards and fascists is the longterm value of a Columbia degree heads towards zero.

vagabending.bsky.social•1 day ago

Harvard gets it - if you don’t fight fascism, a Harvard degree ain’t worth shit.

Columbia meanwhile has failed the easiest test in the world.

djmonijn.bsky.social•1 day ago

wtf?

rmz1961.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hope they sue

mtgauger.bsky.social•1 day ago

This bears repeating: Shame on Claire Shipman

idajo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Whoever knew that Claire Shipman was a closet fascist?

rotter7.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was reserving judgment on Columbia's actions this past year, but it is getting almost impossible to give them the benefit of the doubt and longer. I hope their enrollment is hit hard.

mlamb.bsky.social•1 day ago

The backlash is going to be ferocious. Shipman will rue the day.

benjaminkabak.com•1 day ago

There is a word for this: fascism.

moppasimon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Just wow.

etherialspirit.bsky.social•1 day ago

Reagan described freedom of the press as "a fundamental tenet of American life" and emphasized its essential role in the success of self-government, stating that a free, strong, and independent press is crucial. JFK had the same opinion.
https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/american-newspaper-publishers-association-19610427

willbunch.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good, but the reputational damage has been done https://bsky.app/profile/bgrueskin.bsky.social/post/3loqqla5lyk2m

seejayone.bsky.social•1 day ago

I received a certification from Teachers College, Columbia years ago. I mailed it back to them last month because I don’t need their new branding to tarnish my good name.

Pitiful, truly.

simplyme0612.bsky.social•1 day ago

Europe is watching. And remembering. (I am currently in Northern Europe. The horror at the US is palpable.)

flagdirt.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can I come live with you

tursulowepress.bsky.social•1 day ago

Columbia alumni who are as old as I am could never have imagined that this university, of all places, would do this. There is no end to my rage and heartbreak.

hatstand.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is a huge betrayal. Huge.

alexis8.bsky.social•1 day ago

Shame on #ClaireShipman.

cameronlmitchell.bsky.social•1 day ago

Claire Shipman - a journalist!! - needs to step down from #ColumbiaUniversity

As should the entire Board of Trustees

They have turned CU into an extension of the Trump regime

@columbiauniversity.bsky.social

crritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think you mean “administration puppet” when you write “ABC News.” That entity has capitulated, as have many former journalistic outlets.

jimsamuel.com•22 hours ago

When I was in J-school at Temple, we admired Columbia. Now it should be scorned.

satellitekisses.bsky.social•1 day ago

Unacceptable!!
This is Anti-American.
Unconstitutional.
Stop this fascist regime #GOP @budget.senate.gov @commerce.senate.gov @epw.senate.gov @judiciarydems.senate.gov

helenkennedy.bsky.social•1 day ago

So weird to see Shipman's name. I knew her a bit back in the day when she was at ABC. Nothing from back then suggested she had the chops to run a university, especially one deep in crisis.

dave-littler.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well, perhaps your intuition about her at the time was correct, then.

maraleia.bsky.social•1 day ago

Claire is a fucking MAGAt Nazi.

gill0314.bsky.social•1 day ago

I would expect to see some Pulitzer Prizes been left at there front door. They have tarnished it just like everything else in 🍊💩 world.

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