Valentines Day…the real poop
And no this has nothing to do with Lib-Dems.
Its Witchology’s explanation of Valentine’s Day! And no it was not just an invention of the card and flower companies to stuff boyfriends and husbands.
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Student editor shows spine…suffers for it
Hurrah, student journalists causing trouble. There’s not enough of that going on these days if you ask me. Anyway, the editor of Cardiff University’s student newspaper Gair Rhydd has been suspended after he became the first UK editor to publish one of those cartoons that have been causing rather a lot of outrage in parts of the global Islamic community.While certain newspapers around the world have republished the cartoons, which satirise Muhammad, since they originally appeared in a Danish newspaper, no publication in the UK has done so as yet – although the Beeb
flashed them up on screen while covering the protests against them last week. But that didn’t put off the students who run the Cardiff college paper, newspaper of the year at last year’s Guardian Student Media Awards, who decided to include one of the offending cartoons in their latest edition, which hit the campus last Saturday.Unfortunately the students’ union that funds the title was less keen to court controversy, and has subsequently withdrawn the paper and suspended its editor and three other student journalists. A spokesman for the union,
Tom Wellingham, told reporters: “The editorial team enjoy the normal freedoms and independence associated with the press in the UK, and are expected to exercise those freedoms with responsibility, due care and judgment. The students’ union very much regrets any upset caused or disrespect shown by the publication of the controversial cartoon and has taken immediate action by promptly withdrawing all copies of this week’s edition of Gair Rhydd at the earliest moment possible.”The union reckons all but a couple of hundred copies of the latest edition of the newspaper have now been withdrawn, and they will now be shredded.
Local councillor Joe Carter, whose constituency includes the University’s students’ union, told the icwales.co.uk website yesterday: “They were wise to pull it but I’m surprised they ran it in the first place. There’s a very strong argument about freedom of the press versus tolerance of religion. We have to have tolerance of people’s views and culture”.
This bit of abject cowardice comes via CMU. Good to see a student doing what the MSM in this country should have been doing for the last few weeks.
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