The Daily Signal By Joe Thomas
Thomas Jefferson wanted listed only three accomplishments on his tombstone at Monticello: “Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom; and Father of the University of Virginia.”
On the 249th anniversary of his first accomplishment, the newspaper that covers life at his third accomplishment published a piece titled “A dive into the Board of Visitors’ political donations.” The Cavalier Daily listed each of the 17 members of the University of Virginia’s board and their contributions to the person who appointed them to their posts, Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
If one read this report, it might leave one with the impression that governors appointing their donors to state boards was a new phenomenon. As a point of reference, I asked the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT about this “phenomenon,” and it told me, “This is a recent development in the governance of the university.”
Of course, my experience as a political commentator in Virginia is much older than ChatGPT’s own existence, and I was pretty sure that information might be a bit misleading. Perhaps that’s because it was scanning fairly recent articles from the legacy media that promoted that narrative.
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