Posted on 09/22/2007 1:08:07 PM PDT by Baladas
The Colorado State University student newspaper is under fire after publishing a two-word editorial statement about President Bush.
The Rocky Mountain Collegian published the editorial on its Sept. 21 opinion page, saying "Taser this .. (expletive) BUSH."
University officials released a statement explaining their concern for response to the editorial, and that it has no control over its student media.
“While we understand (the editorial) is upsetting and offensive to many people, CSU is prohibited by law from censoring or regulating the content of its student media publications,” CSU said in a written statement.
The newspaper’s editor-in-chief wrote a letter to readers to explain that “our intentions were not malicious.”
“While the editorial board feels strongly with regard to first amendment issues, we have found the unintended consequences of such a bold statement to be extremely disheartening,” wrote J. David McSwane, editor-in-chief.
The editorial board, which consists of seven student editors, voted in a split vote to run the editorial statement, McSwane said.
Click here for the report on MyFOXDenver.com.
WARNING: Contains expletive. Click here to view the editorial headline.
Click here to visit the student newspaper's Web site.
The university plans to investigate the editorial, said Jeff Brown, CSU's director of student media.
"We find it unnecessary and unbefitting the proud 116-year tradition of the Collegian. We are conducting an internal investigation into the decision-making process used…in choosing to run today's staff editorial comment."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Profound rhetoric!
Horse hocky!
It’s censorship if the gubmint says you can’t say it. It ain’t censorship otherwise. Git this thru yer skulls!! Fer cryinoutloud!!
Looks like HATE speech to me !
Wow, how mature and intellectual
Er, they do realize the Ron Paul supporter was tazed at a JOHN KERRY event, right? Bush was nowhere near that campus.
LOL!
Future Pulizer winner!
The eloquence, the profundity, the erudition in this editorial ....aw, never mind. I can’t be mean to someone whose brain’s been eaten away by Bush Derangement Syndrome. Pity is much more in order here...
Doesn't matter. If a man farts in China, it's Bush's fault.
It is Illegal to threaten the President and I am sworn to protect him and the Constitution. What’s his address?
Why is it that it always seems the school newspaper is under the control of radical liberals?
Bush wasn't even in the same state, it was John F'n Kerry that stood there doing nothing while his supporter was tasered.
Although it does make sense in a way: If this happened in Viet Nam during the Kennedy or Johnson administration Kerry would have taken to the floor of the Senate and blamed President Nixon.
Left-wing college students think Bush is worse than Hitler. I guarantee you that most of them think Bush was somehow behind the tasering incident.
CSU says, “It’s free speech, we can’t do anything!”
If the newspaper headline was, “F*** Homosexuals,”
CSU would have expelled the students, had them arrested for hate crimes, destroyed all the newspapers, etc.
Real intelligent and mature, guys.
“While we understand (the editorial) is upsetting and offensive to many people, CSU is prohibited by law from censoring or regulating the content of its student media publications,” CSU said in a written statement.
They can certianly remove any CSU funding.
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The newspaper’s editor-in-chief wrote a letter to readers to explain that “our intentions were not malicious.”
What are the odds that after a couple days of national attention it will have all been a poorly told "joke"?
So that is why when I drove by the campus there were many students holding a sign that stated:
Shame on you CSU.
Were they saying that because they allowed that to be printed and didn’t do anything about it?
Or were they saying that because CSU decided to investigate?
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