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Originally Posted by ObieX
That pretty much sums up my view right there. Freedom of speech means FREEDOM OF SPEECH. This newspaper is an example of what broadcast television and radio should be like.
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Freedom of speech doesn't automatically grant the
means for that speech. Just because I have a right to freedom of speech doesn't mean that the federal government should automatically give me money to publish/broadcast that speech.
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Pulling funding from the paper would require a legal reason to do so; not liking the content is not a valid reason.
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As the the newspaper is run by students and funded by students, no
legal reason is required. All that is required is for the student government to pull funding.
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Funding for university orginizations should be equal or nonexistant. (no funding for all is technically equal) In the same swipe that you would deny a hate group funding, you are conversely giving preferential treatment to other groups. As I said before, even if every single orginization at my school was aligned with something I disliked, I'd still support their equal funding. This is because, at any point in time, I'd have the freedom to start my own orginization and it would have the same resources as every other orginization. My group would be equal.
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I'm not sure exactly how this school runs it's student groups, but it is simply unfeasable to give every student group the same amount of money, or even any money at all. Certainly a student newspaper requires more money to run than a student group that does nothing but read shakespear. (I don't mean to disparage shakespear, but simply mean to point out that it is much cheaper to buy shakespear's plays than to print several thousand newspapers.)
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There's always going to be a niche for things like this, public dime or no, but the only thing their doing right now is drawing attention to it. In this case, isn't that counter-productive? How many people have read this? How many people are now trying to get their hands on it? How is this hurting the paper?
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Since the paper recieves money regarless of it's readership, I don't see how it is hurting 'the cause'. Perhaps as more people read it, more people will grow to dislike it.