Posted on 09/23/2007 8:51:13 AM PDT by LdSentinal
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - Colorado State University's student newspaper is dealing with fallout for using a four-letter word in an editorial yesterday on President Bush.
The Coloradoan reports that the Rocky Mountain Collegian has lost $30,000 in advertising and had to cut student employee pay and other budgets by ten percent.
Editor-in-Chief J. David McSwane says the newspaper's advisers had no idea it planned to run the editorial.
CSU President Larry Penley says he expects readers to make their viewpoints known and that the newspaper will answer to its readers.
The university, through its ten-member faculty-student Board of Student Communications, could fire the editor. The university says no Collegian editor has ever been fired.
Maybe they could sue the advertisers for violating their First Amendment rights.
Pro-choice!
....there always the first time.
Have they always been so irresponsible?
I’m familiar with the Fort Collins area; Moveon.org is well established inside the brains with the few friends I have there. They HATE president Bush and are incapable of rational arguments concerning politics.
Perhaps the ACLU should look at the disparity of Democrat v. Republican professors in the colleges.
right...that will be the day!
Let’s hope that the newspaper industry continues its current downward spiral, assuring these students remain unemployed in their apparent profession of choice.
Thinking themselves wise, they became fools.
A ping of possible interest.
Well well. This is an excellent lesson for college students on how the real world operates. Apparently the example of the Dixie Chicks didn’t sink in too well.
It’s one thing to live off of your parents and the taxpayers well into your 20’s. But too often living in the false world of the University will give someone the idiotic idea that he/she can say anything without consequences. Get a real job and insult the customers and you are likely to get canned.
This may be the best educational experience to result from the existence of that student newspaper.
“Freedom of speech.
Freedom of consequences.”
Well put. I always get a good laugh when soemthing like this happens. Now I will wait to see how long it is before they are screaming about censorship and how their “right to free speech” is being infringed.
These students have every right to free speech. The advertisers have every right to place their adverts elsewhere. Why don’t these highly intelligent students realize that there are consequences to every action? The infringement on free speech is only wrong when it comes from the government. The parents of these students are not getting their money’s worth in the Government education department.
The parents aren’t getting their money’s worth from their kids’ behavior.
Always a first time, and very deserving if you ask me.
I saw the news segment this morning. They were interviewing the editor of the paper. He knows he is done for.
Looks like these liberal morons just got a dose of reality, a hard pill to swallow for most liberals. Piss off your readers, they cut their ad orders and you feel the pinch. Imagine that.
How long before they fire the libtard editor that let it go through in the first place?
The font on the words must have been something like 48.
I’m sure soros will be rushing on in to make up for the shortfall.
Ahhh, but the kids behavior comes from their indoctrination by the liberal professors that have 98% of the jobs in the institutes of higher learning.
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