. . . and other big-city Texas newspapers all got the Wallace Hall story wrong, per the Dallas Observer and Glenn Harlan Reynolds (Instapundit):
And maybe all of that is Austin politics. But what is to be said for the Texas press and its handling of the Wallace Hall story? Every major newspaper in the state has either called for Hall’s head at one point or questioned his integrity, most of them basing their complaints on an allegation that Hall asked for too much information from the university — in other words, that he did too much reporting. . . . That feels like the sort of thing beat reporters in the capitol covering the story from the beginning should have been able to discover early on, perhaps by asking Hall what he was doing. Instead, the establishment press parroted the charge brought against Hall by detractors that he was asking too many questions and for too much public information — an accusation especially strange when brought by the press.
Reynolds, Instapundit:
Not so strange as all that. The press sees itself first and foremost as political allies of Democrat-dominated institutions, which most emphatically includes universities, a major source of funding, foot-soldiers, and ideological suport for Democrats. When outsiders want information that might hurt Democrat-dominated institutions — see, e.g., ClimateGate — they are always portrayed by the press as partisans, malcontents, and evil. That is because the press today functions largely as a collection of Democratic operatives with bylines.
Indeed.
There's a ruling class and there are the rest of us. The Houston Chronicle, barely disguising its contempt for the rest of us, fancies itself part of the ruling class and serves well enough as a propagandist. The rest of us -- along with individual freedom, free markets, representative government, the rule of law, Christian faith, and classical liberalism -- are on our own.
(Glenn Harlan Reynolds, "Higher Education Bubble Update, U. Texas Culture of Corruption Edition," pjmedia.com, February 19, 2015, quoting from the Jim Schutze, "Wallace Hall Was Right About UT All Along," dallasobserver.com, September 3, 2014)
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