Schools Blocks Its Own Paper From Media Access
In 2015, the student newspaper of Cal State- Fullerton criticized the university for blocking media access and oftentimes dodging reports. The Daily Titan wrote “Strategic Communications, the department that oversees media relations, has kept the university so tight-lipped that a great deal of information important to the interests of the CSUF’s students, faculty, staff and parents has gone unpublished. CSUF media relations officials block the Daily Titan’s access to administrators and require reporters to submit all questions through email, denying requests for in-person or phone interviews. When a response is received, sometimes more than a month later, the information it contains is often watered-down, filtered and written by a media relations officer.”
