Naomi Schaefer Riley meet MHP

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First MHP's footnote piece:

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What Riley wrote to prompt MHP's response is described by one of her producers below and at the MHP blog

Quote:That's because I couldn't wait to hear how Melissa would respond to Schaefer Riley, a conservative scholar at the Institute for American Values. Responding to an earlier Chronicle piece about up-and-coming Black Studies Ph. D. students, Schaefer Riley wrote a post entitled, "The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations" -- wherein she gave Cliffs Notes-worthy summaries of three dissertations from Northwestern students which she hadn't read, and used those to declare the following:

" What a collection of left-wing victimization claptrap. The best that can be said of these topics is that they’re so irrelevant no one will ever look at them....

Seriously, folks, there are legitimate debates about the problems that plague the black community from high incarceration rates to low graduation rates to high out-of-wedlock birth rates. But it’s clear that they’re not happening in black-studies departments. If these young scholars are the future of the discipline, I think they can just as well leave their calendars at 1963 and let some legitimate scholars find solutions to the problems of blacks in America. Solutions that don’t begin and end with blame the white man."

But MHP's footnote piece gets its own footnote (from the blog):

Quote:Today, the Chronicle, after fumbling their earlier public response to the controversial post, dismissed Schaefer Riley as a writer for their blog:

"We now agree that Ms. Riley’s blog posting did not meet The Chronicle’s basic editorial standards for reporting and fairness in opinion articles. As a result, we have asked Ms. Riley to leave the Brainstorm blog."

The Chronicle promised to review its editorial policies, which, it seems, involves allowing writers to publish posts without their having been reviewed by editors. Their last statement in their "Note to Readers" really hit home for me: