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October 05, 2007

"F--K Bush" Protected by the First Amendment

Bravo to the Colorado State University Board of Student Communications for deciding that David McSwane, the editor who ran a large-lettered editorial reading "Taser This … Fuck Bush" in the university student newspaper following the tasering of a University of Florida student, was exercising his First Amendment rights and should not lose his job. The Board gave McSwane the least severe punishment it could impose because of the inappropriateness of the language for an editorial and the harm it caused to the university. Student publications have lost about $50,000 in advertising support and staff have had to take 10% pay cuts. McSwane's punishment was the receipt of a formal admonishment from the Board calling his decision to run the editorial "unethical and unprofessional." An appropriate response, in my opinion.

Posted by Becky at October 5, 2007 05:24 PM