Liberal academia has welcomed recently ousted New York Times editor Jill Abramson with open arms, but the news has been met with some ridicule.
Abramson, who graduated from Harvard University, is returning to her co-ed roots to teach “narrative nonfiction” for the 2014-15 school year, the Harvard Crimson reports.
But some comments under the Crimson article take the opportunity to have some fun with Abramson’s tenure as a journalist.
When a student asked someone to clarify what she’ll be teaching exactly, commenter Terry Hughes offered this: “Jill E. Abramson will be team teaching a seminar together with recently appointed Institute of Politics head Margaret A. “Maggie” Williams on disingenuous writing in a magical realist format, a form of writing pioneered and extensively developed by the New York Times and the Clinton political camp since 1992.”
Her book “Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas” was also panned as a “classic example of a full monty attempt to personally destroy a powerful black man for wandering off the Democrat Plantation,” by poster Shadrach Smith.
Others criticized the decision to bring her to the high-profile institution.
“Does Harvard really want to be on the outs with the New York Times the next time there is a problem at the university such as another huge cheating scandal, further accusations of noncompliance with sexual assault procedures, yet another scandal in athletic recruitment or charges of employment discrimination and so on?” asked poster Nancy Morris.
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