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Robert William Jensen (born July 14, 1958) is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the UT faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media law and ethics in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a professional journalist for a decade. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics, and politics. Jensen also is director of the Senior Fellows Program, the honors program of the UT College of Communication. July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ...
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Journalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting news regarding current events, trends, issues and people. ...
The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. ...
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In his research, Jensen draws on a variety of critical theories. Much of his work has focused on pornography and the radical feminist critique of sexuality. In more recent work, he has addressed questions of race through a critique of white privilege and institutionalized racism. Pornographic movies Pornography (from Greek πόÏνη (porni) prostitute and γÏαφή (grafi) writing), more informally referred to as porn or porno, is the representation of the human body or sexual activity with the goal of sexual arousal. ...
Radical feminism views womens oppression as a fundamental element in human society and seeks to challenge that standard by broadly rejecting standard gender roles. ...
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In addition to teaching and research, Jensen writes for popular media, both alternative and mainstream. His opinion and analytic pieces on such subjects as foreign policy, politics, and race have appeared in papers around the country. He also is involved in a number of activist groups working against U.S. military and economic policies. A foreign policy is a set of political goals that seeks to outline how a particular country will interact with the other countries of the world. ...
Criticism
He drew widespread attention for a series of controversial opinion pieces he published in the Houston Chronicle shortly after the September 11th terrorist attacks. The Houston Chronicle is a daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States. ...
The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ...
According to Jensen, the United States was "just as guilty" as the hijackers in committing acts of violence. Jensen wrote that the Al Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon "was no more despicable than the massive acts of terrorism...that the U.S. government has committed during my lifetime." [1] Al-Qaeda or Al-Qaida (Arabic: ‎ , translit: ; the foundation, the base or the database) is an armed Sunni lslamist organization with the stated objective of eliminating foreign influence in Muslim countries. ...
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Letters to the editor and reportedly over 4,000 complaints to Jensen himself denounced his article as insensitive and extremist, coming just three days after the attack. Several letters also criticized the newspaper for printing the op-ed piece at all.[2] University of Texas President Larry Faulkner also disavowed the articles, calling Jensen "a fountain of undiluted foolishness on issues of public policy.[3] Extremism is a term used to describe either ideas or actions thought by critics to be unwarranted or at least beyond what is acceptable in a civilised society. ...
Jensen has made Spring 2004 "watch list" of The Young Conservatives of Texas, University of Texas at Austin chapter, along with twelve other professors. [4] The University of Texas System comprises fifteen educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are general academic universities, and six are health institutions. ...
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The counter to this criticism, however, is that there is a bankruptcy of critical information in the U.S. news media that disadvantages citizens of the U.S. markedly when it comes to being presented with critiques by the like of Jensen's (see the propaganda model [5]). Thus, the fact that thousands complained about Jensen's so soon after the attacks is hardly surprising, especially given the hysterical propagandistic coverage that permeated most U.S. mainstream news coverage. In a less Americentric vantage point, Jensen's critique could be said to have mimicked the majority of the rest of the world's sentiments, as various global polling studies have amply demonstrated (i.e. rather high unpopularity of President George W. Bush and past agressive U.S. foreign policies). The fact that he raised the ire of an elitist, wealthy University president could be interpreted as admirable, even the responsibility of an intellectual.
Works - The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005)
- Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights, 2004)
- Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang, 2002)
- Co-author with Gail Dines and Ann Russo of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (Routledge, 1998)
- Co-editor with David S. Allen of Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression (New York University Press, 1995)
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