Greenville News Obscures BJU Connection

Does anyone wonder why Bob Jones University chose to get involved in the dedication of Greenville County's new Herdklotz Park? It's because the late Mr. Herdklotz was one of their own--a fact Ms. Davis failed to mention in this article.

This is not the first time the Greenville News has obscured the BJU connections in their articles.

In another fairly blatant example, recall last year's terrible ice storm. Reporter Ben Szobody (himself a BJU grad, if I have been correctly informed) secured a quote for one of the many article about the storm from a Mrs. Ruth Mulfinger, wherein Mrs. Mulfinger said "we're being so selfish" for being noisy about getting our lights and heat back on ASAP. What Szobody didn't say was that Mrs. Mulfinger, a retired BJU faculty member, lives on the BJU campus and had electricity the whole time because the campus has its own cogeneration plant. Mrs. Mulfinger wasn't rebuking herself in the remark, just the rest of us "reprobates" who dared to question authority. (That is how authoritarians stay "in business," after all--by quashing dissent.)

Conservatives love to repeat the myth of the "liberal media" while continually printing content in papers like The Greenville News that suggests otherwise.