New Brunswick Profs Back Times
Sergio R. Bichao
Issue date: 3/6/06 Section: News
FULL COVERAGE:
- - Journalists Blast NYTimes Editor For Snubbing Student (Feb. 27)
- Dean Demands Apology From NY Times (March 6)
While Rutgers-Newark professors defended a student who was snubbed by the New York Times, brownnosed New Brunswick faculty tried to curry favor with the newspaper to get more internships for their students at the expense of R-N, a Newark journalism professor said.
"It is not a time to scurry about trying to curry favor with the Times to get more internships. It's a time to criticize them for being unfair to a student," said Robert Snyder, professor of journalism and recent head of the R-N journalism program.
Snyder slammed a New Brunswick media studies lecturer and internship coordinator for an e-mail he sent the Times lauding the relationship the paper had with the campus and asking to "discuss possible future placements" in the Times.
In the e-mail (which was addressed to Times managing editor William E. Schmidt and forwarded to the Observer by him), Steven Miller writes that Prof. Allan Wolper's Editor & Publisher column about Sharkey and Vyas was "as far from the truth as it possibly could be."
Miller later said that he was only referring to the way the Times has treated his own students in the past.
"We would like to continue our relationship with the Times because we're in the business here of helping and supporting our students," he said.
"I have many students whose dream is to work for the Times and I am going to try to facilitate those dreams."
Snyder said he would have liked to see New Brunswick faculty join Newark in calling the Times to task.
- - Journalists Blast NYTimes Editor For Snubbing Student (Feb. 27)
- Dean Demands Apology From NY Times (March 6)
While Rutgers-Newark professors defended a student who was snubbed by the New York Times, brownnosed New Brunswick faculty tried to curry favor with the newspaper to get more internships for their students at the expense of R-N, a Newark journalism professor said.
"It is not a time to scurry about trying to curry favor with the Times to get more internships. It's a time to criticize them for being unfair to a student," said Robert Snyder, professor of journalism and recent head of the R-N journalism program.
Snyder slammed a New Brunswick media studies lecturer and internship coordinator for an e-mail he sent the Times lauding the relationship the paper had with the campus and asking to "discuss possible future placements" in the Times.
In the e-mail (which was addressed to Times managing editor William E. Schmidt and forwarded to the Observer by him), Steven Miller writes that Prof. Allan Wolper's Editor & Publisher column about Sharkey and Vyas was "as far from the truth as it possibly could be."
Miller later said that he was only referring to the way the Times has treated his own students in the past.
"We would like to continue our relationship with the Times because we're in the business here of helping and supporting our students," he said.
"I have many students whose dream is to work for the Times and I am going to try to facilitate those dreams."
Snyder said he would have liked to see New Brunswick faculty join Newark in calling the Times to task.