You’re fired !!
Requesting to have your co-workers suspended is, I guess, just another day at the office during the “New Normal” times. So now we’re not only training kids to suppress the news like the mainstream media, we’re rewarding them for turning on their cohorts as well.
The University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign’s independent student newspaper suspended its editor in chief and opinions editor Tuesday after publishing controversial cartoons last week.
The cartoons, caricaturizing the Prophet Muhammad, have sparked riots in the Middle East after the cartoons’ original publication in a Danish newspaper.
“Acton and Chuck published these on their own, even though they didn’t ask anyone,” said Managing Editor and now-Interim Editor in Chief Shira Weissman. “There is definitely a way to do this … this was not the way.”
Weissman said the cartoon has hurt the paper’s relationship with the Muslim community, adding, “It’s not something we want to do as a paper, we have to go to school and hear about this all day.”
Omygod, like, gee whiz, like, I mean, like, having to hear about what you publish, like, omygod!
The piece consisted of an editorial written by Gorton and the original Danish cartoons.
“All across the nation, editors are gripped in fear of printing,” Acton said in the editorial. “For fear of reaction.”
Which is probably why he didn’t ask the weenies about it first.
The notion that these two were suspended for any other reason than that they published the controversial cartoons is transparent hogwash. If they had published an editorial telling about what a wonderful school they attend without asking first, nobody would have given a damn.
And I found this line from The Daily Illini’s own Q&A page to be highly revealing:
It is a time-honored tradition that the editor in chief has the final say on content.
How did I know that the next word out of their pen was going to be “However.”
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