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While a number of you blamed Greenspan for the sagging economy, others laid the responsibility at the feet of George W. Bush. "The fall of the stock market is not all that incomprehensible in the context of the unsettling end to the presidential election," declared a Californian. "The downturn can be seen as a crisis of confidence in the new Chief Executive." A Michigan reader went even further: "Our court-appointed President talked the country into an economic slump in order to gain momentum for his tax cut. But how much will lower taxes mean to unemployed or retired people...
...round of finger pointing after the Santana shooting spree, many of you felt that we in the news business share some of the blame for school violence. "Instant fame is one 'Columbine effect,' and TIME bestowed it on the shooters," wrote a Californian, who added, "You may inspire more killing." Echoing the point, a reader from Charlotte, N.C., declared, "A better headline for your cover would have been 'The Media Effect.' The relentless coverage of these tragedies provides a blueprint for every disillusioned kid in America to exact revenge." And a New York City reader urged us to "stop publishing...
This Wednesday will mark the two-week anniversary of an assault against freedom of speech. On Feb. 28, the UC-Berkeley Daily Californian ran an advertisement titled "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea--and Racist Too." The ad, sent to more than 30 college newspapers, was written by David Horowitz, a former Black Panther turned conservative activist. Its publication sparked outrage at Berkeley and elsewhere. Angry student protesters demanded an apology and the Daily Californian capitulated, running a front-page mea culpa...
...protesters didn't make these arguments. Instead, they mobbed the newspaper's offices and branded the Horowitz ad as racist without saying why. The Daily Californian caved at the first hint of protest, running an editor's note that read, in part, "We realize that the ad allowed the Daily Cal to become an inadvertent vehicle for bigotry...
...Hernandez's apology in the Daily Californian was itself criticized by people who felt the papers had thrown their lot with censorship. Washington Post columnist Jonathan Yardley wrote on Monday that "what those editors did in California last week deserves no sympathy...