Who said this:
Unfortunately, several of our editorials … have been based on faulty facts, providing nothing but misinformation and misrepresentation. This is unacceptable, considering that the purpose of our opinions page is to facilitate meaningful dialogue among the members of the campus community and beyond.
Unfortunately, it was the Daily Illini, and not the Journal [...]

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.
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Everything Between linked to my post about the sniveling politically correct cowards who run the Daily Illini. But I really enjoyed his post about Barack Obama at the Gridiron Club.
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Those who defend the Daily Illini’s decision to fire editor Acton Gorton say it isn’t really about his decision to publish the controversial and (mildly anti-Islamic cartoons. They instead he failed to consult his other editors and his bosses.
While I grant that it is a good idea to tip off the publisher that a particular [...]

Sweet babbling Jesus:
A Republic, Madam, If You Can Keep It
Because the Daily Illini has requested that Google remove the cached version of the Muhammad cartoons it ran, I am reproducing the entirety of Acton Gorton’s statement accompanying the printing here.
After this paragraph, the blogger — a U of I student named Stephen Donohue — goes [...]

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 [...]

Acton H. Gorton, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Illinois, has started a blog.
The first post was made on Sunday, Feb. 19 — two days after Illini Media posted its new policy forbidding employees from blogging about the Daily Illini.
Gorton (as well as opinion page editor Chuck Proschaska) was already serving a two-week suspension for doing [...]

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 [...]

Stick a fork in the Daily Illini. It’s dead. It’s corpse is just walking around headless, waiting to die. And good riddance. It’s existence can no longer be justified on the grounds that it performs a legitimate journalistic function. They abandoned the concept that a newspaper is supposed to provide information about the world. Instead, [...]

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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It’s columnist Josh Rohrscheib
Today, I am proud to be writing for the Daily Illini because of the bold decision made by editor in chief Acton Gorton last week to run cartoons few other papers in the nation would run. College newspapers have a great obligation to present extreme perspectives so they can be rigorously scrutinized [...]

The editor in chief and opinions section editor were suspended by Illini Media after the paper received complaints about the paper running the cartoons that are at the heart of a world-wide controversy.
This proves — without doubt — that the Daily Illini has never been the “independent” student publication it claims. The two were suspended [...]

A University of Illinois student was struck and killed by a city bus on Thursday evening. In addition to regular coverage in the Daily Illini student newspaper, Editor Kiyoshi Martinez devoted his blog to providing details and observations about the developing story.
This is a wonderful example of how the Internet and blogging technology can be [...]