Daily Illini is just feelin’ the love
Just one of many incoming links from my post about Illini Media’s jihad against student journalists:
There’s no subtle way to put this – the people who run the Daily Illini have flipped out. Clearly unnerved by being in the national spotlight, the Illini’s board has begun sweating before the klieg lights like a latter day Richard Nixon minus the 5 o’clock shadow.
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Not satisfied with punishing [suspended and soon-to-be fired editor Action Gordon] merely with a Stalinist show trial and termination, Illini publisher Mary Cory wrote a letter slandering Gorton, stating, “His focus … is for the media attention he is receiving personally for his courageous move … to run the cartoons in his paper, not for the need to publish an excellent newspaper worthy of its reputation.â€
” … an excellent newspaper worthy of its reputation.” What reputation? I wouldn’t use the DI to wipe myself. It would leave more filth than it would remove.
Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
