Former UT dean threatens legal action against blog
Written by Kristen Rapin | | krapin@toledofreepress.comA former UT dean has threatened Glass City Jungle operator and Toledo Free Press fact checker Lisa Renee Ward with legal action and is accusing her of racial bias.
Eric Yueh-Ting Lee, former dean of UTs College of Arts and Sciences, said he would seek legal action if Ward did not remove a blog posting about him by Thanksgiving. He said he believes the posting would have been removed if he were white.
Yueh-Ting Lee claims Ward’s July 16, 2008 positing, “Dean Yueh-Ting Lee resigns from his post,” has had a negative impact on his career.
In an e-mail to Ward, Yueh-Ting Lee said, “I believe that the Web blog you presented or managed in July 2008 is related to libels and slanders, racial biases, or it is at least very partial. It had produced a negative impact on me and my career. The media which White people control only displayed negative information about me as a minority and ignored the racial discrimination against me by working with UT to hide racial discrimination [sic].”
The blog was posted the day after Yueh-Ting Lee resigned from his position on July 15, 2008, and links to stories from Inside Higher Ed and Toledo Free Press.
Yeuh-Ting Lee referred requests for comment to his lawyer, Kevin Greenfield, who was unavailable at press time.
Ward said she would not remove the posting from her site.
“I do not remove news material,” she said. “I do remove content if someone violates the rules of the blog but none of the content specific to him met that criteria. If anything, the material I posted showed he was treated unfairly by the university and was forced to resign. There was no mention in either the blog post or any links to his ethnicity being an issue. I’m sorry he’s having problems with perspective employers.”
Yueh-Ting Lee contributed a 2008 guest column to Toledo Free Press that was found to contain unattributed passages.
I love it when so called ‘educated’ immigrants come here from Third World toilets, enrich themselves with AmeriKa’s bounty, abuse journalistic protocol, forget about the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and then threaten legal action when their very sensitive ego’s get twinked ! If they were introspective at all, they may look at how , in the country they originate from, the so called ‘elitist educated folks’, get peasants KILLED all the time for affronts to their very special BEING !! Liberals eating liberals…a spectacle stranger than… themselves !
This comment was posted on November 25th, 2009 at 3:51 pmTy,
The First Amendment only applies to Congress. This guy was never in Congress. Try reading the Constitution, then saying things. “Congress shall make no law….”
This comment was posted on November 29th, 2009 at 5:26 pmHey Bancroft Hi person, YOU READ THE CONSTITUTION !!! The United States Constitution applies to every citizen in the U.S.!!! Your COMPLETE non sequitur, is so idiotic, it could only come from a halfwit majoring in sociology at a college so woefully hateful of the First Amendment, ( Firing a veteran U.T. employee for speaking her mind OFF CAMPUS/ board members who love terrorists & trample private citizens rights !!! ), only reprobates understand ! Now, moan to another like minded nitwit who understands you…
This comment was posted on November 30th, 2009 at 2:33 pmOh look – the Bancroft High weenie chimes in to provide an educational service. Did your Sociology 101 class get canceled again?
This comment was posted on November 30th, 2009 at 3:13 pmUT Student…What Ty was saying is that the press has a sense of immunity from defamation…etc unless someone can show certain abuses. So, essentially this blogger has the right to publish newsworthy articles. Mr. Yueh-Ting Lee cannot impinge upon the freedom of the press to publish newsworthy articles. Arguably, the controversy about Mr. Yeuh-Ting Lee was newsworthy. Therefore, the blogger should be covered. Moreover, you’re totally off base with your comment. Try reading some more about communication law before you comment next time.
This comment was posted on November 30th, 2009 at 4:09 pmNope. I’ll comment whenever I want with whatever amount of information I want. If I’ve learned anything from Ty, I don’t need facts, or truth or reality or sanity to say things in a public forum.
This comment was posted on December 1st, 2009 at 1:57 pmSadly, this strange person typifies the looney left and all that they believe or don’t believe in…depending on what lie they were told to mimic or, was told to repeat ! Obviously, one confused reprobate…to be sure. Non challenging at all due to it’s own self repudiation…an answer to why they voted for these criminal’s would be appropriate however, when a lie is repeated by a delusional person…does that person know… THE DIFF !!??
This comment was posted on December 1st, 2009 at 3:47 pmthe media the “white” people control isnt racist ?? come work on a construction site mr thin skin , id love to see it
This comment was posted on December 9th, 2009 at 2:13 pm