Journalists from the Chapel Hill school of journalism have touched a nerve among members of the John Edwards campaign this week. According to an entry on the Washington Post's campaign blog entitled John Edwards and Journalism 101, the Edwards' campaign attempted to silence a student's video that raised a question about the Edwards campaign center in North Carolina.
A broadcast news piece aired on a student television channel and also posted on YouTube suggests that the Southern Village area where his campaign center is located isn't an area for Edwards' targeted "average person" voter but rather an affluent area.
After watching the piece, I found that the reporter did a good job of getting both sides of the story. It looked very much like the pieces I've seen come out of Park's Newswatch16 and I personally feel that student journalism can often times cut through the crap and bureaucracy that "real" publications get stuck in.
Come on people! I really don't think now is the time to get on the wrong side of the media...this type of criticism is nothing compared to the full-out viciousness that the press dishes out to the President on a daily basis.
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