Politics Veiling the News, Continued
Last week, during the flap about our decision to publish some of the Muhammad cartoons, I posted a list of other U.S. papers that had published the cartoons. It was a list of 8 papers. (Since then, the list has grown to 17 papers.) One of the papers was The Daily Illini, the student paper at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Ill, which published the cartoons the same day we did.
Today’s lead story in the NYT national section is about the Daily Illini’s decision to publish the cartoons. And about the offensive result: The paper’s editor in chief, Acton Gorton, and the paper’s opinion page editor, Chuck Prochaska, were suspended from the paper.
Whoa, Dan Savage is going to blow a gasket!
I think it's opne of the ultimate marks of journalistic intergirty to get banned in some way from your school newspaper. It should be a sought after attribute on all resumes for editors.