On Campus, Uncategorized - by Cody Brown on Monday, April 13, 2009 2:42 - 6 Comments - 90 views
After three articles and over thirty comments, last week CAS Student Council President Megan Cruz approached WSN about the CAS constitution controversy. WSN Editor, Rachel Holiday Smith, who spoke to Local about a policy clarification, explains:
[She] came to us because she was extremely upset with the way things were reported by NYULocal. She said that she was misquoted, the council issues were misrepresented, and that Lucas did not identify himself as a reporter until she asked about it specifically.
If this is true, and Cruz reached out in this way, it raises a lot of questions. In the 8 days Lucas’s article was up, Megan Cruz never contacted NYU Local about any misquotes. Lucas, who sat next to me at Think Coffee while he made the call, was transparent. He asked the CAS Council President if she would speak on the record, she agreed, and only quotes after that point were used. Why would Megan claim to be misquoted but never ask for a correction? Why would she make it seem as though Lucas was misleading about his status as a reporter when she agreed to an on-the-record interview?
Instead of contacting NYU Local to check whether her accusations were at all true, WSN responded to Megan Cruz by publishing an article that quotes her prominently and an editorial, that largely endorses it. Despite breaking the news 8 days before and the story becoming an active news topic on Local where more than 20 students expressed lengthy critical views, WSN did not cite or mention NYU Local in any of its coverage. Why is NYU Local referenced here but not here?
Megan Cruz was contacted Friday to explain but has not responded.
6 Comments
Josh Becker
dene chen
ugh. this is so typical. When someone is reported in an unfavorable light, their first response is always, “I didn’t say it like that. they misquoted me.” Why can’t they just say, “Yea, I said that- I just wish they agreed with me.” ?
Phillip Klugman
Because Dene, that would be admitting that they might be wrong.
Constantino Rago
To answer the question posed by this article, yes, she did lie to gain sympathy. However, I think there is something much more mephistophelian afoot. Did anyone else get the impression that Cruz is trying to blacken the pure and holy moral fibre of our dear NYU Local? Is she keen, and foolish, enough to pit one newspaper with a slightly more reliable and interesting online counterpart?
In all honesty, though, Cruz is blatantly lying to WSN. Her quick response to the article in question made no reference to her being misquoted or otherwise tricked into providing an interview without proper permission. In fact, her very comments reveal enough for any student here at NYU to decide, without hesitation, to vote ‘NO’ for the Student Council amendment requiring requisite experience.
Go back and read it, she says, in her own words, what she feels. She buried herself on this one, and her comments thus far have proven to be excellent shovels.
Sophia Tarabicos
From the WSN article (it interested me, at least):
“Anita Farrington-Braithwaite, CAS assistant dean for freshman and faculty advisor to the Student Council, said she also believes that experience is valuable for students who wish to run for council positions, but other students who do not meet the requirements should not be prohibited from running.”
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