Hunter Campus Safety Officer telling student early in the start of the fall semester that he can’t videotape on school property.
Should the Princeton Review be alerting prospective film, art and journalism students that Hunter students are subject to harassment if they try to take pictures and video on campus?
According to the minutes for the November D:F/M faculty meeting, D:F/M Chair Jay Roman and Colleagues Bob Stanley and Karen Hunter (right now, I regard Colleague Hunter as a sort of overpaid journalistic diletante with a scurrilous reputation for making despicable comments about atheists) and others whose names were not in the minutes, were distressed that Colleague Parisi was being “singled” out for his comments supporting news censorship of the WORD.
![Peter Parisi [From his facebook page]](https://blog.hunterword.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/peewee-parisi-21-187x200.jpg)
Peter Parisi [From his facebook page]
Colleague Peter Paris, chief chaperone for the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, said at a faculty meeting of not long ago that he supported news censorship and that he supported censorship of the WORD. James Arson must be turning over in his grave because of the hypocritical nature of someone who has been passing himself off as a supporter of high journalistic principles.
Thus, a boycott is in the works. I plan to tell all my students: Boycott. Boycott Boycott.
More later.
Peter Parisi Says He Believes in News Censhorship
[A version of this blog post was sent to D:F/M Members Regarding the March 14 Faculty Meeting]
This rebuttal addresses comments of Colleagues Isabel Pinedo, Kelly Anderson, Larry Shore, Peter Parisi, Karen Hunter, Ricardo Miranda and Jay Roman at the last faculty meeting, especially the attack victimology embraced by several Colleagues and threats about censoring the WORD.
The Usual Suspects
1) Isabel Pinedo & Savage Humiliation
Several years ago, after being awarded a educational technology grant from Hunter College, I started the WORD in a collaboration with students to teach journalism, especially news writing. That effort blew the minds of everyone at Hunter College and the City University of New York who were serious about or believed in the importance of student journalism and student writing. Accolades and praise resonated from the Hunter campus to the Chancellor’s office. Then President David Caputo told an assembly at an Hunter College Senate meeting that everyone should read the publication. 
Publishing started during that rancorous period when CUNY was being pummeled by the New York Daily News and the New York Post and the Manhattan Institute and their cohorts for failing its mission to teach and that failure supposedly was reflected in reports and studies that students couldn’t write. And though there was one or two decent CUNY student publications producing stories, most were an embarrassment. The WORD was a breath of fresh air.
“I hear you’re doing well,” CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein told this writer in an impromptu meeting in the office of Michael Arena, a CUNY administrator.
That significant accomplishment also fired up imaginations in the Hunter College Department of Film and Media Studies, inspiring and unleashing what can best be described as academic thuggery of biblical proportions.
The Usual Suspects
I’m telling my students to boycott the event. I’m telling everyone in the journalism circles I frequent to boycott the event even if they never heard of the Aronsons. I’m telling them to tell their friends and associates.
Peter Parisi [From his facebook page
I was not exaggerating when I recently told Colleagues in the Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, about the contempt in journalism circles for this event and that I had to put someone in place at the Polk Awards last year for intimating that I somehow was involved with this Parisi coordinated farce.
Boycotting the Aronson Awards – Sending Peter Parisi a Message
Monday, December 10th, 2012Should journalism professors who support news censorship be publicly pilloried?
Stories are in the works.
Peter Parisi
Tags:news censorship
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