ADLER JOURNALISM BUILDING—The University of Iowa’s student-produced newspaper broke tradition Monday when it deemed something not newsworthy.
For years, The Daily Iowan has clad t-shirts and mugs with its slogan, “If it happens…it’s news to us.” However, media critics frenzied this week when the DI failed to lend coverage to UI Provost P. Barry Butler straightening his tie in a car window on Jefferson Avenue on Monday afternoon.
“Clearly, that’s something that happened, so if the DI is to hold true to its code of ethics, this event ought to be news to them,” UI journalism professor Judy Polumbaum told The Iowa Iowan.
Staffers at the DI, however, were apparently unaware of the controversy.
“The Provost did what now?” DI Editor-in-Chief Adam B Sullivan said.
