Campus PC is out of control
Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, said on Wednesday that arrest warrants had been issued for journalists from The New York Times and ProPublica after both outlets published articles critical of his decision to partially reopen Liberty’s campus amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Photocopies of the two warrants published on the website of Todd Starnes, a conservative radio host, charge that Julia Rendleman, a freelance photographer for the Times, and Alec MacGillis, a ProPublica reporter, committed misdemeanor trespassing on the Lynchburg, Va., campus of the college while working on their articles.
Falwell and Liberty, one of the most high-profile evangelical schools in the country, have come under fire for welcoming students back to campus after the school’s spring break despite the pandemic, while nearly every other college in the country has ordered students off campus.
OK, but let’s not lose sight of the real threats to free and open discourse here. Remember that time a student at Oberlin gently suggested that a scoop of Tuna Helper on two slices of Wonder Bread with Miracle Whip wasn’t really a banh mi sandwich?
Read Magillis’s story and see Rendeleman’s photos here.