Fallout follows expletive in CSU's Collegian editorial

[RobertDevereaux]

Echoes of Mario Savio & the Free Speech Movement:

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A profane four-word editorial in Friday's Rocky Mountain Collegian, Colorado State University's student newspaper, caused advertisers to pull $30,000 worth of advertising and prompted the newsroom to slash student employee pay and other budgets by 10 percent, according to a confidential memo.

The Friday editorial read in large type "Taser this... F-- BUSH," along with a sentence in regular type saying "This column represents the views of the Collegian's editorial board."

The F-word was spelled out in the editorial, and the phrase was printed about twice the size of a normal headline.

In a letter posted on the Collegian's Web site Friday afternoon, Editor-in-Chief J. David McSwane said the editorial was meant to highlight the importance of free speech.....
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Go here to support (or not) the editorial:

http://www.collegian.com/

[loves_dulcinea]

1. the expletive being the word "bush"

fuck bush

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. they PAY student journalists?

what the. . . ?

At my U, it was an honor to work on the paper. In fact, I was on the editorial staff for cartoons, (for a very short time. The chief editor objected to my depiction of Minnie Mouse, pregnant, singing, " M . I . C . . . .K . E . Y. . . " while holding her huge belly. That was strike one. Strike two was even more fun)

[Maq]

4. Play Ball, what was Strike 2 and 3

Do you still have the cartoon?

[Rageneau]

3. Understandable sentiment, but dumb action.