Video: The USC Trojan Frogmarch of John Ziegler
Apparently, the University of Southern California does NOT appreciate this type of journalism. The video above shows John Ziegler as he is handcuffed, detained and then escorted off the USC campus for attempting to interview people attending the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism.Also, Ziegler wanted to give away copies of his film on Sarah Palin
Professional television journalists from across the county and a group of USC Annenberg students and faculty gathered April 15 for the 5th Walter Cronkite Awards Ceremony, administered by the Norman Lear Center, at USC’s Davidson Conference Center. The ceremony included a roundtable discussion and a luncheon where winners received their awards and gave remarks.
Katie Couric made the trip to Los Angeles, taking time from her position as anchor and managing editor for the CBS Evening News to accept her award for “Special Achievement for National Impact on the 2008 Campaign,†which she won for her interviews with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. At the podium Couric told the audience she went to great lengths to be unbiased in her interviews, focusing on every facial expression and body position.
The Norman Lear Center in the USC Annenberg School for Communication, you say, sponsored these awards. Might they be a little nonplussed at the conservative Ziegler and called out – “SECURITY?”
The Norman Lear Center was founded and is directed by Marty Kaplan, associate dean of the USC Annenberg School, who has been a political speechwriter, Hollywood studio executive, and screenwriter-producer.
And, who is Marty Kaplan,the Director of the Norman Lear Center?
Marty Kaplan is the Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the founding director of the Norman Lear Center for the study of the impact of entertainment on society.
Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. In 2008 he became a weekly columnist at The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. He hosted the radio show So What Else is News? on Air America Radio until September 4, 2005.
He has worked as speechwriter and deputy campaign manager for Vice President Walter Mondale, a contributor to the public radio programs Marketplace and All Things Considered, a Disney studio vice president, a movie producer, and a screenwriter (Noises Off, The Distinguished Gentleman).
No, left-wing political agenda there, huh?
I have two degrees from USC and I can tell you have never witnessed such strong arm tactics. The fact is there were few people there, and no commotion (except when security accosted Ziegler).
The universiity would have been better off allowing Ziegler to continue. Now, conservative donors will wonder why Norman Lear and his left-wing fascists now have a foothold on the campus.
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9 Comments
Hype
Hilarious! Reminds me of Steve the drunk, lawnmower riding man. “I know my rights!!!”
Apparently you don’t!
Sidney E. Wing
As an alumnus of USC (’58) and an active long time contributor to the University, I felt ashamed of the outrageous treatment of John Ziegler by the USC campus police. My outrage causes me to consider discontinuing my support of the university from this point forward. I feel the public desreves an apology by the Unibersity president. Sid Wing
jasmine
i agree with sid. he was treated as an hardcore criminal. i think he can be arrested without any handcuff.
Sid
This footage is frighting? How so? An uninvited guest is causing a scene on private property and refuses to leave when asked, so he is escorted off the property. If he was a real reporter he would have had a press pass or at least a proper invitation. No ones rights were violated. He is not a student and not associated with the school in anyway and furthermore he does not have a invite to the event, he has no reason to be there on private property. They escorted him off not because of his views but because of the reasons I state
Paul_D
When you are creating a public disturbance as in the case of the often-unemployed Ziegler, thats grounds for arrest. Ziegler’s douchebaggery alone merits a good douse of pepper spray and a curb stomping.
Flap
If you watched the video, Ziegler did not create very much of a disturbance.
Ziegler’s employment history is irrelevant.
And, regardless whether you agree with him or not he really has a right to do this. But, this is the strong arm tactics of the left: free speech for me but not for thee.
Paul_D
Yeah, I guess if you’re a bitter dead-ender who made a career in making derogatory remarks about female co-workers on the ass end of AM talk radio who then relegates himself to grandstanding idiot causes in a TJ Maxx 2 piece suit with a betamax camera crew on private property, then yes, his free speech was as egregiously violated as much as private citizens who were arrested for attending by a security detail at a Bush rally held in public for the heinous crime of wearing t-shirts that might have made republicans cry.
Sack up, you wuss.
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