5.01.2004
Tillman column and Horowitz ad
Before jumping all over the Daily Collegian folks as hypocrites for publishing the Tillman column and not the Horowitz ad, can someone at least check to see if it's even the same guys running the paper?
The Horowitz thing occurred in 2001, according to the article.
If there's a high turnover rate, like at some college newspapers, then it's a totally different editorial board, which probably shouldn't be held to a past editorial board's actions and inactions three years ago.
And also, another thing to wonder would be if there's a policy difference in how political ads are handled, as opposed to guest op-ed columns.
If they fall under the same umbrella, then yes, there is an argument for hypocrisy and lack of editorial judgement.
As the Brown Daily Herald put it during the Horowitz incident: ''[W]e will not censor advertisements because of their politics, which is what we believe our critics wish us to do.''
That should go for columns, too.
What comes out clearest in this, I think, is that everybody on college campuses needs to go back to school on the First Amendment: The college editors who run the papers, and the folks who take up pitchforks and decide to steal/burn/harass/threaten papers simply because they disagree with its contents or whatever insert/ad they run.
The Horowitz thing occurred in 2001, according to the article.
If there's a high turnover rate, like at some college newspapers, then it's a totally different editorial board, which probably shouldn't be held to a past editorial board's actions and inactions three years ago.
And also, another thing to wonder would be if there's a policy difference in how political ads are handled, as opposed to guest op-ed columns.
If they fall under the same umbrella, then yes, there is an argument for hypocrisy and lack of editorial judgement.
As the Brown Daily Herald put it during the Horowitz incident: ''[W]e will not censor advertisements because of their politics, which is what we believe our critics wish us to do.''
That should go for columns, too.
What comes out clearest in this, I think, is that everybody on college campuses needs to go back to school on the First Amendment: The college editors who run the papers, and the folks who take up pitchforks and decide to steal/burn/harass/threaten papers simply because they disagree with its contents or whatever insert/ad they run.
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