J-school prof sends inappropriate messages to student, resigns

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/11/18/810363/unc-faculty-member-resigns-over.html

Also some interesting coverage from the new student news organization he was leading can be found here:

http://reesenews.org/2010/11/17/reesenews-director-monty-cook-resigns/5918/

 

Poor guy. The curse of the midlife crisis strikes again. Shoulda just bought a sports car... or confined his targets to "consenting adults."

 

Goddammit, Carolina. Enough already.

 

He was making $135,000 for that shit? Wow.

 

You would think when she decided to major in journalism, she was only getting screwed once.

 

This is one of the reasons I would not leave the actual journalism world for the ivory tower to each. I lecture twice a year in a TV news class and, let's just say the scenery can be... "target rich". Ugh.

 

For that kind of dough, I'd take the cash and a lot of cold showers.

 

I carefully say, because there's no excusing any of this, that again it doesn't fail to amaze me of all these dumb people (OK, men) doing this kind of thing in written form, either e-mail or SMS text (sometimes with photos!) or any kind of IM service, so they leave an easy-to-follow trail of their indiscretions.

Whatever you think of the morality and ethics, at least in the old days, you talked in person or on a conventional, non-digital phone, and didn't leave a written record lying around.

 

What kind of money would he have been making at the Baltimore Sun?

$135,000 doesn't sound like a ton of money for someone in his role at either the paper or the University.

 

That's a ton of money for a university lecturer. There are full professors in his department who make less than $100,000

 

I probably didn't read the article closely enough. Didn't realize he was just a lecturer, not a full fledged professor.

 

Maybe he sent her a message that said, "you're totally fucked if you pursue this as a career," and it was misunderstood?