The hoofbeats you hear in the distance are the echos of the ever-the-brave journalists and university ‘intellectuals’ running towards Dhimmitude.Nothing new in that. Just one more step closer to the complete surrender by the leftists.The editor of the University of Illinois Daily Illini, has been fired. He was fired for printing the Danish Muhammad cartoons by the board of directors of the Illini Media Company.
From the Associated Press:
“If I can be fired, what will other students think who maybe want to challenge the status quo?” said Gorton, who had briefly addressed a board meeting the previous night. “This is a bad precedent.”
The Illini Media Company, which manages the Daily Illini, has also pressured Google to remove their cache of the issue running the cartoons.
So much for Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press.
Courage is such a rare commodity these days.
h/t The Dread Pundit Bluto The fired editor, Acton Gordon’s blogSee AP story. story.
Others blogging on this: The Jawa Report; The Stranger; Peoria Pundit; Instapundit; Dhimmi Watch; Mark Tapscott; MoJo; GOP and College; Kesher Talk
Will have all the posts from http://www.bluestarchronicles.blogspot.com/ over here asap.
March 15th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
You new digs look great. I’m glad you’re a pioneer. I’m going to do this some time this year - get WP, a domain and host it on a paid server. Excellent.
March 16th, 2006 at 4:49 am
Yes, I read about that … but, in the journalism world, this will be a high point in the editor’s resume.
For that matter — for student publications, where’s Columbia’s students on this? Where’s the publication of the cartoons in Medill’s DailyNorthwestern … or, are they now so indoctrinated into leftist philosophy that they no longer care about Freedom of the press?
Of course, we’re still not seeing them published in the NYT’s, the Chicago Tribune, etc.
I think this is the most important issue to hit the journalism world for more than a hundred years — and both student and professional editors are not making themselves proud.
March 16th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
I think WordPress loads slower than your old site. Seems I waited forever
and the word wrap isn’t working (I’m in IE). Good luck straightening
it all out!
March 16th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
Great looking site!
I don’t understand what they think they are trying to accomplish,except losing more crediblity.
They scream freedom of the press when they want to make Bush etc look bad. But when they could
step up and strengthen our freedoms, they fire people for doing just that? Well, I guess that’s
freedom of the press too?
March 19th, 2006 at 12:24 am
“So much for Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press.”
does that include the freedom to hire and fire as they choose? if not, would you mind sending
an email to roger ailes, in protest of his staffing practices? thanks….
say? what is it with you guys and your need for these cartoons to be universally
(and perpetually?) published? if you’re going to tilt at mindwills, couldn’t you at least do
it with some measure of decorum? sheesh. what a “cause” to get behind….
KEvron
March 21st, 2006 at 6:05 am
If you are interested, here are two interesting articles related to the cartoons that I found on the site http://www.jcpa.org :
http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas- 04…gerstenfeld.htm
and
http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-21.htm
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:27 am
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