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Interview: Adrianna San Marco, Student Journalist Fired for Conservative View
“On her ouster from The Daily Orange, the student journalist says: ‘It also affects me as student because all my peers have banded together and tried to cancel me.’”
“On her ouster from The Daily Orange, the student journalist says: ‘It also affects me as student because all my peers have banded together and tried to cancel me.'”
On June 20th, Merion West’s Kevin Turner was joined by Adrianna San Marco, the student journalist recently profiled by Fox News for her ouster by The Daily Orange, Syracuse University’s student newspaper where she was a journalist.
In her own words, Ms. San Marco was fired due to an article she had written for LifeZette, a conservative news and commentary website. In the article entitled “Why institutional racism is a myth,” she makes an argument based on publicly available law enforcement data as well as peer-reviewed studies that challenges the notion that black Americans are disproportionately targeted by police officers.
While these statistics are commonly shared among conservative and centrist news sources, what brought her national fame was the firing itself. She suggests the firing was politically motivated.
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