Via Phil Magness’ Facebook page (economic historian at AEI):
Nikole Hannah Jones has not written a single line for the newspaper where she is employed as a reporter in over two years. She also lacks a terminal degree in any field, has no prior teaching experience in higher ed, and has no scholarly publications. To cap that off, she has been credibly accused of severe acts of journalistic misconduct, including ghost-editing the web copy of her published articles in an effort to game the Pulitzer Prize review process.
Those facts combined render her fundamentally unqualified to hold a faculty position of any type, let alone one that is hired at the full professor level with tenure.
And now she’s outright grifting off of the taxpayers of North Carolina by securing a payout settlement from UNC to withdraw her lawsuit against the university for receiving all of those things and then declining the offer because the university’s board of trustees briefly pushed back against it.
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Nice work if you can get it
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Via Phil Magness’ Facebook page (economic historian at AEI):
Nikole Hannah Jones has not written a single line for the newspaper where she is employed as a reporter in over two years. She also lacks a terminal degree in any field, has no prior teaching experience in higher ed, and has no scholarly publications. To cap that off, she has been credibly accused of severe acts of journalistic misconduct, including ghost-editing the web copy of her published articles in an effort to game the Pulitzer Prize review process.
Those facts combined render her fundamentally unqualified to hold a faculty position of any type, let alone one that is hired at the full professor level with tenure.
And now she’s outright grifting off of the taxpayers of North Carolina by securing a payout settlement from UNC to withdraw her lawsuit against the university for receiving all of those things and then declining the offer because the university’s board of trustees briefly pushed back against it.
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Nice work if you can get it
Academia, particularly the Humanities, needs to be purged.
Qanon is some wacky ****. I still have trouble believing that anyone actually buys that stuff, but mental illness seems to be rampant in this country.
Qanon is some wacky ****. I still have trouble believing that anyone actually buys that stuff, but mental illness seems to be rampant in this country.
I wonder if someone like Michael Flynn has imbibed the kool-aid or is just playing footsie with the crazies.
Sidney Powell and Lin Wood I'm pretty sure are legitimately crazy.
I will be moving to Academia, albeit in flyover country and at a school of business administration, full-time this fall. .
The dark side of the crowd funding movement is that anyone who is fairly prominent and without integrity can find some fringe group to run a grift on. Those people are so desperate for recognition that they're easy marks. It reminds me of the right wing love affair with Roseanne Barr a few years ago. "Someone in Hollywood is on our side??? We love her, never mind that she's uncouth and lacks morals."
I can't imagine a much easier way to make a living than to tweet sympathetically to a wacky cause using lots of relevant hashtags until you have a couple million followers, then start your own foundation. Tue only thing standing in any moderately intelligent person's way is character.