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Death by Journalism?: One Teacher's Fateful Encounter with Political Correctness and the Civil War by Jerry Bledsoe,

When Rhonda Winters, director of the Archdale campus of Randolph Community College, decided to offer an adult, community outreach course on the Civil War in North Carolina, she couldn't have imagined the storm of political correctness she was setting into motion community college wilmington north carolina and the nightmare it would bring. The course was almost finished, community college wilmington north carolina and the students were enjoying it immensely, when a controversy-seeking reporter for the News & Record of Greensboro, who had entered the class without permission, clashed with instructors community college wilmington north carolina and students community college wilmington north carolina and wrote an article falsely claiming that the course was teaching that slaves in the South were happy. Picked up by the Associated Press community college wilmington north carolina and reprinted worldwide, the article brought a barrage of vituperative news coverage community college wilmington north carolina and vilification to the college. Although students, instructors community college wilmington north carolina and college officials protested that the newspaper's sensational claims never happened, News & Record editors insisted that its articles were fair community college wilmington north carolina and accurate -- even after evidence indicated otherwise. The articles resulted in branding the college, students community college wilmington north carolina and instructors as racist, community college wilmington north carolina and brought about an investigation by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights community college wilmington north carolina and the cancellation of the course. In this engrossing, moving, community college wilmington north carolina and frightening account, national award-winning journalist community college wilmington north carolina and New York Times #1 bestselling author Jerry Bledsoe takes readers into the class to show what actually happened community college wilmington north carolina and behind the scenes as college officials, students, community college wilmington north carolina and instructors attempted to deal with the crisis. But more than that, it tells the story of an honorable man, Jack Perdue, the course instructor, a local historian community college wilmington north carolina and preservationist, who died during the controversy. A man whomfamily, friends community college wilmington north carolina and students believe was destroyed by the news media. Death by Journalism? raises important questions about free speech, academic freedom, political correctness, racial politics, community college wilmington north carolina and integrity of the news media. It should be required reading for journalism students.
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