Word: herald
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...assumption, equally shared by the Third World coalition and many of its detractors, that newspapers are ideological monoliths--that the decision to accept an ad or revise a story can be motivated only by political biases and not by honest deliberation on journalistic principles. After all, the Daily Herald printed the advertisement even though it has taken no position on reparations for slavery in the last two years, and The Crimson chose not to accept the advertisement even though it strongly opposed reparations in an editorial last March. But that did not stop the Herald from being lambasted as racist...
...Brown campus is still reeling from last week's theft of 4,000 copies of the Brown Daily Herald by an assemblage of students named--strangely and somewhat offensively--the "Third World" coalition. The attack on the Herald followed the publication of an advertisement by David Horowitz opposing reparations for the descendants of slaves. The ad was inflammatory to say the least, asserting in part that African-Americans owed an equal debt to white Christians for the creation of an anti-slavery movement. But nothing in the ad would justify--indeed, no mere statement of opinion could justify--the removal...
...Herald's decision to print the ad was based on a desire for open debate and discussion, valid reasons indeed for a newspaper dedicated to and protected by the freedom of the press. Unfortunately, Brown University seems as if it is unsure whether to support the freedom of its daily newspaper. The interim president has qualified her criticism of the theft, and the faculty panel discussion that was scheduled in place of a more open student gathering was remarkably uniform in its condemnation of the advertisement. We urge the university to change its course and draw a clear line between...
Though we recognize the Herald's reasoning, its decision was not the only one a responsible newspaper could have made. Advertising is a business decision, and newspapers are under no obligation whatsoever to print ads that they judge to be bad business. A newspaper has an equal right to decide whether it wishes to profit from the publication of a specific advertisement as to decide whether it will invest in tobacco stocks and profit from the sale of cigarettes...
Whether or not to accept the advertisement is a valid decision for newspapers to make, and neither conclusion legitimates the response of stealing newspapers. Indeed, the copies of the Herald that were stolen did not even contain the offending ad, but only articles defending it. The theft was pure retribution, and the tenor of the "demands" levied by the protesters--free advertising space, the donation of the purchase price to campus minority organizations--seem to indicate a desire for payback rather than a concern for standards. The arguments to justify the theft--that it was not theft because the Herald...