Posted on 10/08/2007 9:28:22 PM PDT by george76
Upset over a college newspaper editorial about President Bush that used an obscenity, conservative students at Colorado State University have started printing their own newspaper.
A group calling itself the CSU College Republicans on Monday distributed the Ram Republic, which they are calling the “Conservative Voice of Colorado State University.”
Editor Bobby Carson said the group had already been thinking about starting a journal when the campus’s main publication, The Rocky Mountain Collegian, published a four-word editorial that directed a four-letter word at Bush
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycamera.com ...
The Collegian could lose $50,000 in advertising revenue from local business owners who threatened to pull their ads after the profane editorial ran. The newspaper already has been forced to cut staff salaries by 10 percent and print in black-and-white instead of color.
Campus liberals already are paying attention. In a Friday editorial, the Collegian took a dig at the fledgling publication.
“And to the CSU College Republicans — we would like to congratulate you on your decision to start a competing paper,” said the editorial. “Good luck. We’re sure Fox News will be very kind to you when you alienate the liberal college population.”
Good for them! Hopefully the Ram Republic can pick up some of that advertising.
For campus conservatives, that was the last straw. Plans for an alternative publication, already in the works, accelerated as disgust grew with the Collegian”s unapologetic defense of the Sept. 21 editorial.
“We started planning this a few weeks prior to this whole incident because we’re sick and tired of the same left-wing opinion in the Collegian,” College Republicans Chairwoman Chelsea Penoyer said.
After the Collegian editorial ran, “We started getting all these writers who wanted to write for us instead of the Collegian,”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071008/NATION/110080029
Let's see if they do it....
A local tv report had a long time alumni and CSU donor on tv saying that she was donating her annual CSU contribution to the new paper instead of to the University.
Colorado State University President Larry Edward Penley has been apparently hiding from the media...not returning phone calls...
This stonewalling will just encourage the alumni and businesses to drop their university donations and then support the new paper.
What wonderful news, it gives me hope.
Thanks for the info!
Why bother with 250 words when one expletive says it all? Denver Post
That's what Diane Carman says of J. David McSwane's "Taser this. F--- Bush" editorial. "McSwane is the future of journalism. Smart. Confident. Audacious. Opinionated. Brief. Very brief. He writes tight. Short sentences. Readers can finish an editorial in three seconds. Its impact lasts weeks."Posted at 11:13:17 AM
I do wonder how well print works in terms of expenses and distribution in a college environment. Perhaps a good synergy between on-line content and eye-catching print content could keep costs down and readership up?
You know they are running scared if they go so far as to attack the opposition. If current trends hold out, this paper should do well, considering Fox News and conservative talk radio. But, they have a point about it being a liberal population.
Wonderful news....thanks for the Ping
Not only can't they write very well, but they are also little whining babies.
“And to the CSU College Republicans — we would like to congratulate you on your decision to start a competing paper,” said the editorial. “Good luck. We’re sure Fox News will be very kind to you when you alienate the liberal college population.”
They may be college aged liberals but the sound like whiny little spoiled brats.
Viva Competition and Capitalism!
Yes. She should have added that he's very original too.
McSwane is the future of journalism...throwing f bombs ?
How does the funding work ?
Apparently no direct school money; do they get a cut of student fees or just advertising ?
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