[Redmen4ever]

The U of I student paper suffers from a lack of advertising and, so, heavily relies on money provided by the University. Turns out the University has strings attached to its money.

In the case of U of I, the University doesn’t want the student newspaper to interfere with what is really important on campus nowadays, which is football. The homecoming edition is supposed to be all positive, feel good stuff, not anything controversial, and not any news.

[catnipman]

“It receives about $250,000 annually in subsidies from the university’s Media School to help make up for dwindling ad revenue.”

apparently the students and adviser ignored the provisions of the contract associated with the funding, and AP is pretending the consequences are “censorship” ...

[Bullish]

If the students were paying for the paper then they could decide what's printed in it. If they are just ‘working’ for the paper or were privileged to write for them then no free speech rights were violated here. Free speech is only at play when the govt violates a citizens rights to say to, or about the govt whatever it wants to.

[quantim]

“...heavily relies on money provided by the University.”

And how much of that money is our tax dollars at work? The leftists and colleges should not get a dime of our money.

[DesertRhino]

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