An Oregon State University student newspaper article titled "The Islamic Double Standard" led to the inevitable protests, of course, but also something more ... intriguing:
“The pain that it caused ... did not subside with time,” said DD Bixby, the Barometer’s editor-in-chief. “It kind of just festered.”She said editors have been checking copy with Muslim students, and on Tuesday deleted one paragraph from a piece scheduled to be published the next day.
Bixby said her staffers are “all pretty much Oregon-type kids” who knew little about Islam and didn’t foresee how people would respond to the column.
Maybe The Barometer is on to the next big thing on college campuses -- having different "aggrieved" groups edit "offensive" and "disrespectful" text from student newspapers.
All in the name of "tolerance" and "diversity," of course!
(h/t: LGF.)
Does anyone else find it ironic that the name of the school newspaper is The Barometer? Of course, a barometer is a scientific instrument that measures atmospheric pressure or some other type weather data.
And a barometer can't be fudged or massaged or edited. It's like a thermometer- it simply tells it like it is- it's frigging cold or it's frigging hot or atmospheric pressure is up or down. And no editing required or allowed.
Someone should remind these wimpy college kids what a newspaper is supposed to do....report the facts and let the chips fall where they may.
Posted by: AJ Lynch at March 5, 2006 01:58 PMThe editor has a wonderful career ahead of her in PR. No real journalistic entity worth more than the coupons inside would give her a job. If my editor did that to my copy you can be sure it'd be the last piece from me they'd ever look at.
Posted by: Dickie Dunn at March 5, 2006 09:25 PM