Professor (former TV Journalist) gets heat for Clinton endorsement...

[MnFats]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/11/19/professor_takes_heat_for_nod_to_clinton/?page=full

'proof of liberal media bias'.....yeah, right.


It was an unorthodox political endorsement, to be sure. And in throwing her support behind presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with an unprompted, heartfelt speech at a New Hampshire rally last month, Carole Simpson, the longtime ABC news anchor-turned-Emerson College journalism instructor, flung herself into the partisan fires.

While Clinton was quite taken by the unexpected backing, quickly issuing a press release touting it, others have taken offense. Over the past month, news of Simpson's endorsement has barreled across the blogosphere, seized on by conservatives as proof of liberal media bias. And Emerson students and faculty continue to debate the ethics of a journalism instructor and well-known former reporter making a public show of support for a political candidate.

Simpson, 65, said she immediately regretted her actions and offered her resignation the next day, which university officials refused to accept. Now Simpson is considering an offer from the Clinton campaign to stump for the candidate, namely before black audiences in the South.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. If you were ever a reporter you are NEVER allowed to voice an opinion?

How sad. This country is really going down the big crapper.

[Benhurst]

4. She was being criticized for doing so as an acting professor, not as a former

reporter.

Unfortunately our current crop of corporate media reporters editorialize all the time.

[Bitwit1234]

2. Then how come

Matthews, blitzer, chuckIE roberts, scarbrough, tucker, the Fox pig sty and the rest of the cable and newwork republican hawkers haven't been fired.

I guess if you support a democrat you are supposed to resign and let the republican spewer stay on.

[Bitwit1234]

3. PS

I would love to tape one of the shows where the right wing vileabotors spew a lie about a democrat. Then hire a lawyer and sue the S.O.B and the station for slander. If they are going to give news, about either a republican or a democrat then it should be factual.