{"id":188417,"date":"2021-03-03T13:15:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=188417"},"modified":"2021-03-03T13:15:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:15:30","slug":"student-journalist-settles-with-asu-after-being-fired-over-tweet-about-jacob-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/student-journalist-settles-with-asu-after-being-fired-over-tweet-about-jacob-blake\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Journalist Settles With ASU After Being Fired Over Tweet About Jacob Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudent-journalist-settles-with-asu-after-being-fired-over-tweet-about-jacob-blake%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=188417&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1270136574-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A journalism student has settled with Arizona State University after she was fired from a radio job over what happened after she tweeted about the sexual assault allegations against Jacob Blake, who was shot while police were trying to execute a warrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/02\/arizona-state-settles-with-student-who-was-fired-for-jacob-blake-tweet\/\">reported<\/a> that Rae\u2019Lee Klein, who attended the ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, was fired as station manager of the school\u2019s radio station, Blaze Radio, after she tweeted an article about the sexual assault allegations against Blake. Her tweet allegedly offended other students in the organization, which prompted her firing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlways more to the story, folks,\u201d Klein said in a tweet last August, which included a link to a New York Post article. \u201cPlease read this article to get the background of Jacob Blake\u2019s warrant. You\u2019ll be quite disgusted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ASU said in a statement regarding its settlement with Klein that her tweet prompted meetings between offended students and school staff, which led \u201cthe student board to conclude that relationships had deteriorated to the point that they lost confidence in Klein as a leader and the board decided to deny her further programming authority for the station.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, in a statement to Fox News in October that interim dean Kristin Gilger, ASU\u2019s journalism school, and its mass communication program made it clear to Klein \u201cthat she would not be, and has not been, removed as station manager of Blaze Radio because of the views she expressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, it wasn\u2019t for the views she expressed, it was for how students reacted to those views, which is somehow different. Instead of explaining to the allegedly offended students why Klein\u2019s tweet was an act of journalism \u2013 providing context to a bigger story \u2013 the school took action against Klein.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Klein remains a student employee of Arizona State University and ASU has presented her with options to continue on as a station manager in a way that takes into account the needs and points of view of other students involved in the Blaze Radio organization,\u201d\u00a0ASU said in its October statement.<\/p>\n<p>Klein sued the university, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/18\/arizona-student-journalist-cancelled-over-jacob-blake-tweet\/\">telling<\/a> the Post in September that she received \u201ca huge amount of backlash\u201d for the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said in me sharing that it was very insensitive, offended them and made them feel unsafe and uncomfortable with me being a leader of such a big organization on campus,\u201d Klein told the outlet. \u201cI was in no way condoning what happened to him, I was just sharing information I thought was relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Klein deleted the tweet and apologized, saying: \u201cIt was not my intent to make an excuse for what happened to Jacob Blake. The incident is tragic in every sense of the word. The point of my tweet was to provide an additional perspective. I apologize to anyone who I may have offended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful for the conversations I\u2019ve been able to have with people who have offered differing opinions. I, as a student journalist, did not take into account the harm this may have further caused and I am committed to minimizing harm as I try to seek truth. Again, I apologize,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>She said that even after she apologized, people called for her to resign.<\/p>\n<p>On February 25, ASU announced that it had reached a settlement with Klein, who initially asked for $500,000. In the end, she accepted $7,040 as reimbursement for tuition and other costs, the university said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journalism student has settled with Arizona State University after she was fired from a radio job over what happened after she tweeted about the sexual assault allegations against Jacob &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274674,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1270136574-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Student Journalist Settles With ASU After Being Fired Over Tweet About Jacob Blake","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1270136574-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Student Journalist Settles With ASU After Being Fired Over Tweet About Jacob Blake","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}