LEAKED: Gov. Ron DeSantis Journalism Course Docs Revealed

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shared his ideas on the abysmal state of journalism within the nation at a roundtable dialogue he hosted yesterday on media ethics. Alongside a panel of legal professionals and defamation case claimants, the governor performed discuss present host in an hour-long phase throughout which he attacked legacy media corporations and argued for decreasing the authorized commonplace to show defamation in opposition to public figures.

“These corporations are in all probability the main purveyors of disinformation in our whole society proper now,” DeSantis mentioned.

Not to be outdone, we contacted our most disreputable, dishonest, disloyal sources throughout the Florida Department of (Dis)Education, who revealed DeSantis’ plans to advertise — nay mandate — his imaginative and prescient of moral journalism in Florida.

Word has it that DeSantis will probably be issuing an govt order outlawing all present journalism lessons and creating a brand new obligatory course for incoming J-school college students at Florida state universities, which can train the proper, non-ideological ideas of stories reporting.

The course, titled “Journalism 101: Reporting the Right Way,” will probably be taught by two of the state’s most famous journalism consultants: Ron DeSantis himself and assistant professor Christina Pushaw, the governor’s “Director of Rapid Response.”

Through sleepless nights and sticky backroom dealings with varied shadowy figures, we obtained our palms on a leaked copy of the obligatory DeSantis course syllabus.

Prepare to be schooled, Ronny-style.

Syllabus: JOURNALISM 101 with Professor Ron DeSantis

Objective: The goal of this course is to coach you to turn into a megaphone of the governor’s workplace, who dares not problem Ron DeSantis on coverage stances nor expose any allegations of wrongdoing inside his administration. You will learn to establish compelling information tales, particularly those who paint Ron in a flattering mild.

The course will train how public data aren’t really for the general public and why defamation legal guidelines are slanted in favor of the media.

It goes with out saying, however as a pupil on this course, you might not learn or report on something mentioning the phrases “queer,” “racial profiling,” “sexual identification,” or “inequality.”

Any reporting that touches on systemic racism will probably be averted in any respect prices, as it might make folks really feel somewhat shameful — which is downright rude. Concepts on this vein needs to be banished from the collective consciousness, in order to stop uncomfortable reflection on historic wrongs. (The course rubric is in step with the DeSantis-backed Florida legislation limiting dialogue in public faculties about ingrained racism.)

At the start of the semester, the course will present a quick historical past of how your wicked predecessors within the area of journalism needs to be shunned till solely conservative reporters amicable to the DeSantis agenda have a voice.

As defined by assistant professor Pushaw in a dialogue concerning the Washington Post, “My working concept is that if ALL conservatives merely cease speaking to them, the legacy media will lose any shred of credibility or curiosity to Americans who observe politics. It received’t be price paying for straight DNC opinion. We ought to use our platforms to construct up new media.”

Students ought to come out of this class able to take the journalism world by storm as a part of Christina and Ron’s “new media.”

Towards the top of the semester, the course will give attention to why the U.S. Supreme Court wants to instantly overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, a landmark 1964 ruling that shields media corporations from being gratuitously sued for publishing criticism and claims in opposition to public officers.

As famous in DeSantis’ ground-breaking February 7 ethics panel, the Sullivan case established the next commonplace for proving defamation in opposition to public figures — a transfer that has since endangered the welfare of numerous frequent residents, who at any second, might be deemed “public” and thrust into the middle of malicious exposés by agenda-driven mainstream media hounds.

By the top of this course, you’ll come to reject the unholy logic of Justice William Brennan, who said that the United States has a “profound nationwide dedication to the precept that debate on public points needs to be uninhibited, sturdy, and wide-open, and that it might effectively embody vehement, caustic, and generally unpleasantly sharp assaults on authorities and public officers.”

Required studying:

NOTE: All outdoors books should be accredited by assistant professor Pushaw earlier than studying, to make sure they won’t indoctrinate you with the woke agenda, or flip you homosexual. 

Banned studying:

• Associated Press Style Book
• A History of Florida: Through Black Eyes by Marvin Dunn
• Any guide on journalism ethics
• South Florida Gay News
• All mainstream media besides possibly Fox
• Anything essential of Ron DeSantis

Assignments: