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Dahleen Glanton: The apologetic editorial in Northwestern's student newspaper reveals an issue most black journalists face

The editor of The Daily Northwestern student newspaper made a rookie mistake. I think he knows that now.

The fact that Troy Closson apologized in an editorial for reporters doing their jobs covering last week's protest of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions' speech on campus doesn't give us the right to condemn an entire crop of budding professional journalists. Closson doesn't deserve it either.

Many professional journalists, students and others were stunned by the editorial that appeared days after protesters breached security in the lecture hall where Sessions was speaking and entered through a bathroom window, violating

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