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By Dennis Byrne
Chicago Daily Observer
Here we go again, as defenders of unbridled high school journalism ride in on their high horses, raising alarms over the “censorship” of school newspapers. The very Republic, we are obliged to believe, is “at risk.”
Their latest crusade was launched by the recent resignation of a student newspaper advisor at Stevenson High School in protest of the administration’s newly instituted “prior review” of the student newspaper before publication. She and like minds are censuring the school administration because, they assert, prior review amounts to “censorship.”
Wah, wah, wah.
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1 comment:
For once, I agree with you. The school owns the newspaper and has every right to be it's editorial board. If the students want real freedom of the press, they can start their own newspaper, one that they pay for, and can publish anything they want.
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