Original e-mail

Here are words from the original McManus e-mail to the journalism faculty, which was in response to a list of speakers from Jewish sources made available to the School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

"In the spring term I invited an Israeli journalist made available in a similar way -- through the Israeli embassy. I asked him to address a series of questions about global communication -- the topic of the class. He didn't discuss a single one. Instead, he turned the class into a propaganda session trying to persuade the students that Israel is unfairly treated in the U.S. press. That might have been a useful discussion were it based on data, but it wasn't. Several students found it offensive. And, of course, it was totally one-sided."