Setting the Record Straight: CW Corrects Chauncey Devega

Campus Watch corrects yet another smear against it, this time by Salon writer Chauncey Devega, whose research-free piece demonstrates that some authors don’t let facts get in the way of a good story:

Chauncey Devega reveals his intellectual laziness by asserting that Campus Watch smeared a disgraced professor whose name, in fact, does not appear on our site.

In his paean to Lars Maischak, a former lecturer in U.S. history at California State University, Fresno, Devega falsely charges that

Right-wing advocacy groups such as Campus Watch have used Maischak’s comments to advance their smear campaign against “dangerous” professors who are supposedly indoctrinating students with left-wing ideology.

To read the rest of this correction, please click here. To access CW’s archives of corrections, please click here.

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Winfield Myers

Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.