Campus Watch in the Media

Pompous Oxford Don Watch

by Martin Kramer
MartinKramer.org
June 19, 2004

http://The Nation also sets up Avi Shlaim with a leading question about the Campus Watch website run by Daniel Pipes.

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1200

He obliges: it is "sinister and deplorable." "What defines a university," intones Shlaim, "is complete freedom of expression, and the people behind Campus Watch are responsible for a direct assault on this basic and fundamental academic right." I answer: complete press freedom is a basic and fundamental right. Is criticism of the New York Times (say, for its WMD coverage) a sinister, deplorable, and direct assault on press freedom? Campus Watch has operated entirely within the range of fair criticism. Reading Commissar Shlaim, it occurs to me that maybe the UK needs one too.

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