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.
I was appalled at some of the so-called “columns” in our local community college’s newspaper. I was like, this is news? Many columnists used vulgarity/bad words as if they didn’t know what a thesaurus is used for.
People often use profanity to try to compensate for their own limited vocabulary associated with low intelligence.
It seems our journalist with the potentially low IQ printed something along the lines of “Taser this f*** Bush?”
Presumably our journalist believes Bush somehow influenced events when a liberal student confronted a liberal politician at a liberal college?
Symptomatic of Bush Derangement Syndrome?
Exactly, this is why we should do away with Tenure and begin terminating many of these pathetic Professors. It would be fun to watch the ranks of McDonalds swell when these asshats can’t find real jobs.
LOL BUMP
Academia is so thoroughly insulated from reality that when it’s smacked in the face by it, it must come as quite a shock. The entire country doesn’t share their view of GWB, and especially doesn’t appreciate having the dignity of the presidency dumped on. Enjoy unemployment, dipsticks.
what did it say? i’m getting sick and tired of these pompous college creeks. i understand the vast vast majority of college grads in this country who were given a civics test got an F.
The student newspaper has obviously discovered the truth about journalism — that the aim is to sell newspapers that contains enough sponsorship to pay the bills.
A very great real-world experience.
Perhaps the necessary liberal pretext and subtext to connect the dots eludes me.
Sounds like a plan
Our budding journalist apparently failed to make the varsity moonbat team at CU Boulder and so decided to stink up my own alma mater as a consolation prize. :(
Should be UC Boulder.
I figured you were referring to Columbia University’s campus in Boulder! Easy mistake! ;-)
An editor who had no idea they were going to print the “editorial” is an idiot. Every editor must know what is to be printed in every issue and should be fired for sheer incompetence if they “are unaware.”
Let’s not forget to remind this editor that an ad hominem attack is the sign of a failed argument. The paper’s advisory board should require all staff to take and pass a course in logic as a condition of employment.
Well, there was that guy - a disheartened lib, iirc - at the Boston Glob back in the ‘70s that scrawled “Mush from the Wimp” across a story on a Jimmy Carter pronouncement, and it made it’s way into the paper, at least the first run.
There's a first time for everything. If we were still in the Clinton years, his penalty may have been a lot worse.
One of the hardest thing for a person, especially a young person, to learn is that our choices and decisions have consequences. As Jackie Gleason said, “How sweet it is!”
And this one shouldn't either.
He should be 'forced' to go into the office and deal with his coworkers, who are now working for less money, be forced to deal with advertisers. I'm sure that not all advertisers have made their viewpoints known yet.
Don't let him become a martyr. Make him either face up to things, or resign of his own accord.
Same way with Katie Couric. I never watch her, but I'm sure enjoying her discomfort. I hope shes around for 5 more years, and both of her viewers are interviewed when she leaves.
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