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September 7, 2008

We don’t need no stinkin’ journalists… in the journalism department

From the Daily Forty-Niner student newspaper at Cal State Long Beach:

College of Liberal Arts Dean Gerry Riposa walked out of a meeting Friday morning with journalism department faculty rather than talk to students and press who were present regarding a proposed feasibility study of putting the Daily Forty-Niner online only.

“I thought I was invited to a brainstorming session with the faculty,” Riposa said later that day. “When I meet with the press I like to be prepared. When I went down there, I didn’t even have a clipboard.”

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Posted by Donna Wares, September 15th, 2007 | Permalink
File under: Colleges/universities, Journalism
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