Why hasn't this fraudster been sued out of existence??http://chronicle.com/article/Videos-Ripped-From/127319/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=enApril 28, 2011
Videos 'Ripped' From Online-Course Footage Bring Threats to InstructorsBy Peter Schmidt
The University of Missouri system has been besieged with angry letters and phone calls, and top officials at its St. Louis campus have asked an adjunct faculty member to resign, as a result of the conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart's posting videos this week that appear to show two labor-studies instructors advocating union violence.
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"From the review completed to date," her statement said, "it is clear that edited videos posted on the Internet depict statements from the instructors in an inaccurate and distorted manner by taking their statements out of context and reordering the sequence in which those statements were actually made so as to change their meaning. Such selective editing is disturbing, and the release of students' images without their permission is a violation of their privacy rights."
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Mr. Breitbart had indicated in an April 18 interview on Hannity, Sean Hannity's show on Fox News, that he planned to "go after" educators and their union organizers. Mary Lou Hines Fritts, chief information officer for the Kansas City campus, said on Thursday that the classroom footage used in the videos on Mr. Breitbart's site technically could not have been downloaded, and the videos must have been made by capturing streaming video through a process commonly known as "ripping."
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The American Association of University Professors issued a statement on Thursday characterizing the videos on the Web site as an assault on "the academic freedom and employment security of the instructors," and "the privacy and safe classroom environment of the students, some of whom speak on the video clip."
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