Times scolds Quinnipiac
HAMDEN — Quinnipiac University administrators should officially “withdraw its threat” of banning the school chapter of the national Society of Professional Journalists from campus, The New York Times editorial board wrote Wednesday.
The 334-word opinion piece, written almost two months after Quinnipiac Student Center Director Daniel W. Brown issued the “official warning” to school SPJ chapter President Jaclyn Hirsch, described the “unusual lengths” to which Quinnipiac has gone to “curb the activities of student journalists” at Quad News, the school’s independent news Web...
Bravo!
The New York Times is in nno position to lecture anyone about publishing the truth of censorship. They manage to selectively report the news and try to make opinion pieces sound like "news". they are bias and unobjective.
They may be correct about this issue. However, their credibility is so damaged, who cares what they think??
I apologize for Jim from Ledyard. Here's hoping the QPac administration decides it doesn't need more public humiliation.
Nonsense to @3. The NYTimes INVENTED the Op-Ed Page, a veritable point/counterpoint to their own editorial page. Of course they are liberal and they make no secret of that. If it weren't for the N.Y. Times and the courage to publish forbidden material (am yone recall the Pentagon Pape rs?) Nixon would hav e successfully subverted the Constitution.
Dear Editor:
I grew up literally riding my bike on what is now the Quinnipiac University campus at the foot of the Sleeping Giant in Mt. Carmel, Connecticut. I was appalled by Yale Daily News reports recently of 1960's indifference toward freedom of speech on a university campus which the Qunnipiac administration has exhibited the last few months. It reminded me of the administrative arrogance which led to the Kent State shootings in 1970 which I witnessed as a grad student at that Ohio school May 4, 1970. And while we are celebrating the importance of student journalism, allow me to point out that the Daily Kent Stater deserves a Pulitzer Prize for their courage in focusing attention like a laser beam on the injustice which unfolded for four full years after the Kent State slaughter and maiming. Long live student journalism and Bravo NY Times for saying so in its 10/29 editorial!
Paul D. Keane, MDIV'80