Why the Conservative "Controversy" About Race and Western Washington University's President Is So Idiotic

You know it’s a slow news week when a CBS crew invades the quiet Western Washington University campus in Bellingham (where I'm a journalism student and the former managing editor of The Western Front).
The people from CBS—and so many others in the news media—are responding to a fake controversy created by a right-wing blog called Campus Reform and carried forward by other media.