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Posts Tagged ‘cartoon riots’

The Silence of the Student Blogs

No comment yet on Kyoshi Martinez’s fine blog, The Next Frontier. I may be going on on a limb, but that just might be related to the fact his pro-censorship employer, Illini Media, has threatened to fire anyone who blogs about the Daily Illini.
Illini Media,Daily Illini,Acton Gorton,censorship,cartoon riots,anti-Muslim cartoons

March 15, 2006 in The Wire
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So where are the rioting Jews?

While looking up some data that lunatic racist and general all-around whack job Louis Farrakhan, I came across this site. I agree: It shows lot of hypocricy for the Arab world
to complain about a series of very mild cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammed, let alone initiate a well-orchestrated series of riots.
You don’t see Jews [...]

February 24, 2006 in Watchdog
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Free speech enemies win yet again

Collegiate student journalism suffered another blow today. The U.S. Supreme court declined to review an appelate decision that gave colleges the right to censor student newspapers when the college itself prints them:
The case, Hosty v. Carter, No. 05-377, involved three student reporters at Governors State University, in Illinois, who in 2000 wrote articles in The [...]

February 21, 2006 in Watchdog
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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 [...]

February 20, 2006 in Watchdog
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DEN rules, Daily Illini drools

Billy Panther picks up on my post and adds other instances of lousy collegiate journalism in Illinois.
At the Daily Eastern News, our motto was “tell the truth and don’t be afraid.” Apparently, they want the editors at the Daily Illini to be afraid for their jobs.
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February 17, 2006 in Watchdog
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More forbidden Prophet Muhammed images

It’s shocking, shocking I tell you, how decadent Westerners continue to insist on creating images of the Prophet Muhammed (or Mohammed, depending on the dictionary). Don’t they know that Islam from day one has forbidden any image of Muhammed? Don’t they know that this has always deeply offended people of the Islamic faith:

Oh, the arrogance [...]

February 11, 2006 in Overset
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This cartoon can’t possibly offend anyone …

After all, neither of these two guys is actually Muhammad.
Right?
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February 11, 2006 in Overset
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