Journalism student against Edwards

A journalism professor at the University of North Carolina said that Edwards’s aides were pressuring him to remove a YouTube video made by one of his student criticizing Edwards.
The journalism student Carla Babb went to the Edwards headquarters to make an interview with a student intern. However, after seeing the headquarters, her focus changed to the contrast between Edwards’ message to erase poverty and setting of Edwards’ center in an affluent part of Chapel Hill.
After the video was published, Babb’s journalism professor was called by Edwards’ people demanding explanations for why the focus changed and saying that they felt, “blind-sided by the way the reporter presented the piece in the pitch,” reported a NYT article.

So, as a student journalist, I think this is a pretty nice case for me to think about. First of all, it shows that student journalists are not treated as real journalists in the political world. Politicians think they can call up the professor and tell them to scold the student, which they couldn’t do in case of an editor.
Also, politics at college is a swampy area. What if the professor had been a hard-core Edwards-supporter? Again, the question of objectivity comes up. Apparently, politics can’t be kept outside of colleges, but at the same time, both students and professors have to be cautious about what they say and they react to others’ opinions.