Falwell Jr. killed student newspaper articles critical of Trump: report

[DonViejo]

BY BRETT SAMUELS - 08/20/18 05:16 PM EDT

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., a staunch supporter of President Trump, reportedly reviewed and rejected stories and opinion pieces written about the president in the school's student newspaper.

World Magazine, a Christian news publication, reported Monday that tensions rose between Falwell Jr. and the school newspaper, The Champion, when the Evangelical leader endorsed Trump for president in 2016.

Falwell Jr. reportedly required that editors disclose whom a columnist planned to vote for in the 2016 election.

When sports editor Joel Schmieg penned a column objecting to Trump's vulgar comments on the "Access Hollywood" tape that was released in October 2016, Falwell Jr. ordered the piece be spiked because the paper had already run one Trump column that week, World Magazine reported.

Schmieg told the publication that he posted the column on his Facebook page instead, and was warned by school staff against doing so in the future.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/media/402734-falwell-jr-killed-student-newspaper-articles-critical-of-trump-report

[Scurrilous]

1. K&R

[LakeArenal]

2. Anybody surprised? Didn't think so.

[gratuitous]

3. We know how much conservatives just hate censorship

You think Alex Jones or any of his meathead fanboiz will be denouncing Jerry Jr. anytime soon?

[Girard442]

4. The student newspaper at Liberty University is censored.

Do you suppose Falwell even sees the irony?

[no_hypocrisy]

8. War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength

[WePurrsevere]

5. Another reason for student newspapers to be independent...

When they're run by the college and/or student government they can't properly report news and tend to be propaganda.

[Maraya1969]

6. Here is a tiny url to the article and Fallwell's Twitter handle. Feel free to post this under his

threads, especially the ones where he tries to act like a Christian.


https://tinyurl.com/ybnrtk7m Article

https://twitter.com/JerryFalwellJr

Oh and Liberty University

https://twitter.com/LibertyU

[Thunderbeast]

7. The IRS might think this interesting.

I would think that this would bring Liberty's tax-exempt status under question.