{"id":1367,"date":"2007-09-29T06:42:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T11:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2007-09-29T06:42:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T11:42:24","slug":"the-last-refuge-of-hyperdramatic-dolts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1367","title":{"rendered":"The Last Refuge Of Hyperdramatic Dolts"},"content":{"rendered":"

To steal a concept from Andy Warhol; soon, everyone will spend fifteen minutes wrapping some personal shortcoming in the Constitution.<\/p>\n

This week?\u00a0 It’s this intellectual gimp<\/a>, an editor at the Colorado State “Collegian” newspaper:<\/p>\n

The editor of the Colorado State University newspaper says he has no plans to resign amid criticism of the paper for using an obscenity in an editorial about President Bush.<\/p>\n

The four-word editorial, published Friday in the Rocky Mountain Collegian, said in large type, “Taser<\/a> this. F\u2014- Bush.”\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

J. David McSwane, the Collegian’s editor-in-chief and a CSU junior, said the newspaper’s governing board may fire him but he said he would not voluntarily step aside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The irony, of course, is that I’m flummoxed to remember a single person ever being tasered at a Bush press conference.\u00a0 John Kerry, on the other hand…<\/p>\n

(And oh, good lord.\u00a0 A college kid with an initial for a first name.\u00a0 I want to taser him on principle).<\/p>\n

“I think that’d be an insult to the staff who supported the editorial,” McSwane told the Fort Collins Coloradoan in Monday’s editions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think that’d be irrelevant at this point.<\/p>\n

Of course, the news isn’t all <\/em>bad:<\/p>\n

The newspaper’s business manager has said the operation lost $30,000 in advertising in the hours after the editorial was published, and that the pay of student staffers would be cut 10 percent to compensate<\/p>\n

McSwane said the newspaper’s student editors decided to use the obscenity because CSU students are apathetic about free speech and other rights.<\/p>\n

“We thought the best way to illustrate that point was to use our freedoms,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s get something straight, “Mr.” McShane; you didn’t “use your freedoms”; you defaced them.\u00a0 You “used” your freedom of speech like someone who farts in church, sprays grafitti on a bathroom wall, and has a food fight in a clothing store “uses” their freedoms of religion, press and assembly.\u00a0 You trivialized those freedoms, and made yourself, your “advisors”, your paper and\u00a0 your university laughingstocks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Board of Student Communication, which oversees the Collegian and other student media at the university, plans to discuss the editorial when it meets Tuesday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Proposal #1:\u00a0 hire a grownup.<\/p>\n

(Via Fraters<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To steal a concept from Andy Warhol; soon, everyone will spend fifteen minutes wrapping some personal shortcoming in the Constitution. This week?\u00a0 It’s this intellectual gimp, an editor at the Colorado State “Collegian” newspaper: The editor of the Colorado State University newspaper says he has no plans to resign amid criticism of the paper for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}