Just a reminder, this is the group that started the nonsense about Kathleen McElroy. They are so right of center that very few Republican legislators are conservative enough for them. This article, as with the article they wrote about Kathleen McElroy, is a case study on yellow journalism. This was written by an A&M Journalism student, by the way. If this is the direction the Texas Scorecard and their A&M mouthpiece, the Rudder Association, wants the A&M Journalism program to go, then it's a sad day for A&M and for Texas.
Here are the major flaws/examples of yellow journalism in the story. First, Qatar. There is no discussion about where the Qatar money goes. Virtually none of it is used on the A&M main campus. That money goes to support the Texas A&M Qatar campus. That was conveniently left out of the story, because this student/Texas Scorecard has an agenda. Also not mentioned in the story are the other US universities being equally supported Qatar with branches in Qatar, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, Virginia Commonwealth, Georgetown, Cornell Medical School.....and those are just the US universities. They also support European and Canadian universities. In short, Qatar is educating its best and brightest using US universities and faculty, who bring with them Western values. Specifically, A&M Qatar's students are being taught by A&M faculty, moreover, they're learning Aggie values and they are being taught alongside the academic subjects being taught. And, they get an Aggie Ring just like I wear, and they are equally proud of it. But sure, let's let Texas Scorecard go ahead and diminish them because they're Arabs.
As for the article's China portion, the yellow journalism shouts from the page. To be clear, China is a bad actor. They are dangerous and far more a threat than any other country to the US. The obvious example of yellow journalism in this article is the section on Confucius Institutes where the author talks about ties to the Chinese Communist Party and how there are Confucius Institutes alt universities all over the US. But guess what? There isn't one at A&M!!!! Guilt by association. The CCP is infiltrating Universities through Confucius Institutes. A&M is a university. A&M is taking money from the CCP. Yellow journalism at its finest. The fact is there WAS a Confucius Institute at A&M until about 4 years ago when the real objective of the Institute was discovered. It was immediately ended and hasn't been on campus since. More importantly, the story fails to mention the more than a dozen FBI agents in a building near campus whose sole job it is to monitor Chinese students and faculty to ensure intellectual property from A&M doesn't end up in Chinese hands.
There are many other flaws/ examples of yellow journalism through out, but in the interest of brevity I've limited it to just these. None are privileged information, or somehow difficult to ferret out. It would have taken this student 15 minutes to find out what I've shared, had she chosen to do so. People who have more than two synapses need to reject this kind of yellow journalism and demand better. This hit piece on A&M is so fatally flawed that it's author should be ashamed of herself, and the organization who sponsored this garbage should be recognized for the bomb throwing radicals they are.
