i dont really see the distinction between crompsin's position in no. 2 and this
Quote:
CSU College Republicans issued a written request Saturday for McSwane to resign his position.
"This is not a free speech issue," the request stated. "(I)t is an issue of journalistic integrity."
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http://media.www.collegian.com/media...34-page2.shtml
which was cited in today's edition of the paper.
"journalistic integrity" from the csu republicans appears to mean : if you say fuck bush, this is what you loose.
of course, you are free to say it.
you just arent a journalist anymore.
and this in response to an editorial.
as usual, the problem is not the act itself, but the hysterical response from the self-proclaimed "decency" brigade for which it appears that there is "freedom of speech" so long as you dont say anything they do not like ("freedom of discretion" in another parlance)
similarly with the advertisers who pulled ads because of it. (coors maybe?)
sometimes i wonder just how formal folk are willing to allow freedom of speech to become.
but at the same time, this is a trivial situation: a trivial 4-word editorial in a college newspaper.
for gods sake....
i dont see what the flap is about.
that there would be a brouhaha about a self-evident and openly framed act of agitprop from conservatives and (conservative) advertisers is among the stupidest things i have read of in a long time.
if they had shut the fuck up, the edito would have gone away by saturday morning.
idiots (say it out loud in your finest napoleon dynamite voice. its fun.)