C-SPAN Crews Barred from AEJMC Discussion
By PIERCE MURPHY
AEJMC Reporter
C-SPAN officials sent a letter of protest yesterday after one of the cable channel’s camera crews was barred from taping an AEJMC panel of reporters who were discussing coverage of the Supreme Court.
“We were very disappointed and kind of surprised by the decision of a journalist organization closing an event to cameras,†said C-SPAN’s Terry Murphy, vice president of programming.
The crew had already arrived to tape the 10 a.m. panel, sponsored by the Law and Policy Division, when panelist and New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse expressed concerns about the camera crews.
Greenhouse said she did not know that the discussion would be televised. There would be “a different tenor if the conversation would be on national television,†she said.
After Greenhouse expressed her concerns to Amy Gajda, the event’s moderator, the camera crews were asked to leave.
Gajda did not comment on the incident when reached in her hotel room late Thursday.
Greenhouse said she did not ask for the crew to leave, and would have been willing to continue regardless of AEJMC’s decision.
“I have absolutely nothing against C-SPAN,†she said. “I never turn down an invitation from C-SPAN.â€
But she said the panel would not “have the same kind of intimate conversation†if the discussion was televised.
Mich Sineath, public relations and marketing specialist with AEJMC, confirmed that it was the Law and Policy division that barred the cameras.
Murphy said the panelists were e-mailed the night before to let them know that C-SPAN would cover the event, but Greenhouse said she did not get the message.
The New York Time’s e-mail system is very aggressive with spam blocking, she said, adding that the e-mail likely never reached her because it was blocked.
“I had expected to speak at one kind of event, and it turned out to be a totally different kind of event,†she said.
C-SPAN did not know its crews would be turned away until moments before the panel convened.
“All the participants were notified the night before, and no one objected. Then, five to ten minutes beforehand, we were told we couldn’t cover it,†Murphy said.
“Having a five-person crew unable to work for a day was a major hit on us,†he said. “We sent a letter to AEJMC complaining and protesting the decision.â€
[...] C-SPAN Crews Barred from AEJMC Discussion. That’s the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communications which kicked the camera crew out of one of the sessions at its annual conference, apparently at the request of a NY Times reporter. More at CJR. [...]
Move on, move on, nothing to see here, keep moving , no stopping, nothing of interest here, keep moving, nothing to see, move on
Grennhouses fear of the TV cameras is perfectly understandable. If you are in the business of inventing reality, a camera or a microphone are your enemies. It is incidents like this, the attacks on Fox News, the threats to make talk radio “fair”, campus speech codes, the merging of the Democratic Party with the networks, the increasing left ward tilt of Newsweek, Time magazine and and the major newspapers; which are the most obvious outward signs of the lefts program to supress all oppostion and to make journalism nothing more than a conduit for the lefts political propaganda.
[...] C-SPAN Crews Barred from AEJMC Discussion | AEJMC Membership Forum Another thinned-skinned journo: “panelist and New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse said she did not know that the discussion would be televised. There would be “a different tenor if the conversation would be on national television,†she said.” (tags: journalism events tv mainstream+media problems) [...]
[...] an interview with the AEJMC Reporter, Greenhouse denied the suggestion that she threatened to walk out unless C-SPAN’s cameras [...]
Sir:
Ms Greenhouse exemplifies the hypocrisy of the left, and the New York Times when it comes to open forums. They are afraid that their views will be subverted by someone who may have a little more common sense than they have.