Ira Stoll

2 weeks ago | theeditors.com | Ira Stoll

Harvard’s public-relations operation is pretty clumsy, but it isn’t totally helpless. Today it tried one of the oldest tricks in the spin handbook, which is attempting to bury a release of bad news behind a release of even more bad news. We didn’t set out here at The Editors to write a Harvard newsletter any more than we set out to write a Federal Reserve newsletter, but there aren’t many other outlets out there with the ability and inclination to pierce through the Harvard spin.

2 weeks ago | theeditors.com | Ira Stoll

Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, a Harvard Divinity student from Ghana, is one of two Harvard students who faced facing misdemeanor criminal charges of assault and battery of a Jewish student on the Harvard Business School campus. He pleaded not guilty.

3 weeks ago | algemeiner.com | Ira Stoll

New York Times Faces Reader Backlash for ‘Arab Woman With Israeli Citizenship’ Line [contact-form-7 404 "Not Found"] The New York Times is receiving major backlash from its readers after the newspaper described victims of a cable car crash in Italy as “two British tourists and an Arab woman with Israeli citizenship.” “I’m failing to see the reason of mentioning the woman’s ethnicity. Why didn’t you mention the two British tourists’ ethnicity since you’re at it?” said one Times reader, Rached...

3 weeks ago | theeditors.com | Ira Stoll

My morning Wall Street Journal had a box on the front page with a graphic headlined “The Rich Get Even Richer,” teasing a news article inside under the headline “Richest of Rich Gain $1 Trillion.”That eight-paragraph article on page two included six paragraphs that contained mention of or attribution to Gabriel Zucman, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley.

3 weeks ago | theeditors.com | Ira Stoll

What valuable project will grind to a halt because of the federal government’s freeze on $3.2 billion worth of research funding to Harvard? You’d think that with all that sponsored research to choose from, Harvard’s 16 outside lawyers, in combination with the university’s vast staff of in-house attorneys, public-relations and government-relations staff, research administrators, and deans would have an easy time finding a super-compelling example.