[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070922/CSUZONE01/709220352/1002

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Comments: Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:23 am
I’m not happy about a number of Hillary’s health care proposals.
Can I use the F word in my editorial?
Will they publish it, or is that word only reserved for editorials that they agree with.

I like this comment! Free speech for me but not for thee!

[Lucky Dog]

The Friday editorial read in large type "Taser this... F-- BUSH," along with a sentence in regular type saying "This column represents the views of the Collegian's editorial board."

A few questions come immediately to mind:

What do Bush and taser have in common?

It seems that the most recent taser incident in the news involving a political figure was in a John F. Kerry presentation. I do not recall any incidents where Bush and a taser were even mentioned in the same news story.

Are these student reporters and editors really that ill-informed? Alternatively, if it is not a question of ignorance, is their capacity for logic that impaired?

While the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and the press among other things, that freedom is from government interference, not freedom from the civil legal or societal consequences of such freedom of speech or the press. These vulgar, ignorant excuses for journalism students should be summarily dismissed from their positions and required to take weekly vocabulary tests for the remainder of their collegiate sojourn.