[O]n Thursday night, the conservative activist James O’Keefe gave a talk in Middlebury promoting his undercover video operation Project Veritas.
O’Keefe’s hidden camera recordings targeting journalists, politicians and social groups have been roundly criticized, and this event took place three days after a high-profile Washington Post expose revealed a hoax Project Veritas had been planning to discredit the newspaper.
Thursday’s event had been promoted under the name “Middlebury’s Problem with Free Speech,” suggesting a connection to an incident earlier this year when a talk by author Charles Murray at Middlebury College was interrupted by protesters.
That incident was barely mentioned at Thursday’s event, but students at the college say it still casts a shadow on the campus. And while the national response to Murray’s encounter with college protestors revolved around free speech, the student body’s focus has returned to race relations.
On this week’s podcast, VTDigger’s Cory Dawson talks to Elaine Velie and Nick Garber, student reporters at the Middlebury Campus newspaper, about O’Keefe, Murray and the current mood on campus.
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