Bush profanity outrage
 

Fall out from the taser, Kerry, Meyer debacle. Though I am an ardent supporter of freedom of speech it does have its limits - the editor must go.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx...international/

I agree. Dropping that on your coffee table for your children to see.....

-S

Which is the prime concern of a student newspaper :p

A good example of overstepping the mark :yep:

Funny how politicians are allowed to get away with it though :nope:

The end of the story is that he didn't get sacked... (The reviewing committee held up the First Amendment Rights! Yay!) but admonished the editor that the article was in poor taste, etc...

Good for them....however, that could cost them in advertising revenue :hmm:

Anyone have a link to the article for which this headline was for?
It seems to be in bad taste, but id need to read the article to see if it was justified to some degree or not.

And it should be. I don't consider lack of age and experience to be an excuse for a poor job. If you are in a position, you should know how to handle that position, or face the consequences for screwing up.

-S

I say it every day, so far I haven't seen a drop in my income. But there again, I am self employed. :p

**** 20 year olds and college newspapers.

Don't worry, I'm just aiming to provoke a debate on freedom of speech. You can get away with anything if you persuade the others that you're on the good side.

"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them."
-Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787.

Chock one up for you Subman1, I should reconsider my opinion.............of some of your posts.................Respectfully. Sunvalleyslim

All very nice and dandy except that Jefferson also intended for newspaper owners to NOT say what they don't want to. This paper is not owned by the student editor but by some formation between the college and the campus student organization. Like most any paper, they have the rights to create their own publishing guidelines. They did and this editor violated them.

TJ wouldn't have had a problem with this. Why do you? :hmm:

There are other ways of getting a debate going other than dropping the F bomb on the front cover of a newspaper.

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