{"id":388297,"date":"2018-12-08T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/huffposts-attack-on-academic-integrity-truth-and-justice\/"},"modified":"2018-12-08T09:01:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T08:01:10","slug":"huffposts-attack-on-academic-integrity-truth-and-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/huffposts-attack-on-academic-integrity-truth-and-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"HuffPost\u2019s Attack on Academic Integrity, Truth, and Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><em>On 4 December 2018,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/professor-piers-robinson-sheffield-university_uk_5bd70ffae4b0d38b5885c5c5\">HuffPost published an article by senior editor\u00a0<strong>Chris York<\/strong><\/a>, whose single purpose was to discredit\u00a0<strong>Professor Piers Robinson<\/strong>\u00a0of the University of Sheffield (UK).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Prof. Robinson is Chair in Politics, Society and Political Journalism and researches communication, media and world politics, focusing on conflict and war.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>His current teaching includes research methods, introduction to political communication as well as propaganda, media and conflict. The University of Sheffield\u2019s Department of Journalism Studies\u00a0is considered one of the most prestigious in the U.K.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>While mass media are certainly entitled to criticize whomever they wish, it is quite rare that they devote an entire article to destroy the reputation of an academic. One can, therefore, assume that the attack on Prof. Robinson\u2019s reputation was ordered by higher-ups for reasons that will become evident in this essay.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/12\/1-prices-768x4274.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-697557 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/12\/1-prices-768x4274.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/12\/1-prices-768x4274.png 702w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/12\/1-prices-768x4274-150x129.png 150w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/12\/1-prices-768x4274-300x258.png 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/12\/1-prices-768x4274-620x533.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Screengrab from HuffPost<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>HuffPost\u2019s unconscionable attack on Prof. Robinson\u2019s personal integrity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The introductory paragraph of the article reveals its slanderous intent.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>\u201cAn academic teaching journalism students at one of the UK\u2019s top universities has publicly supported long-discredited conspiracy theories about the 9\/11 terror attack, HuffPost UK can reveal.\u201d\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The journalist left no stone unturned in his efforts to discover controversial statements by Prof. Robinson. He found three academics willing to berate Prof. Robinson:\u00a0<strong>Lydia Wilson,<\/strong>\u00a0an Oxford and Cambridge research fellow and editor of the Cambridge Literary Review,\u00a0<strong>Yasser Munif<\/strong>, a Lebanese expert on middle eastern politics and society at Emerson College, Boston and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><strong>Nader Hashemi<\/strong>, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/12\/no_author\/huffposts-attack-on-academic-integrity-truth-and-justice\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 4 December 2018,\u00a0HuffPost published an article by senior editor\u00a0Chris York, whose single purpose was to discredit\u00a0Professor Piers Robinson\u00a0of the University of Sheffield (UK).\u00a0\u00a0Prof. Robinson is Chair in Politics, Society and Political Journalism and researches communication, media and world politics, focusing on conflict and war.\u00a0\u00a0His current teaching includes research methods, introduction to political communication as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}