Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is not an issue of free speech. The Crimson obviously has a right to print what it will. Your decisions, however, can and do reflect on your judgment, maturity, and responsibility as journalists. The use of offensive and juvenile material like this cartoon makes it very hard for your readers to take the Crimson seriously when it offers commentary and advice on more serious matters...
...hope that the new Crimson staff will avoid this kind of poor judgment shown by its predecessors and take more seriously its mission of providing high quality journalism for the Harvard Community. --Fred Jewett Dean of Harvard College
...unthinking adherence to a motto like "we are not in this to be nice" makes it too easy to brush aside criticism that may be legitimate. Each issue of a newspaper includes not only the news, but also the editors' and reporters' personal judgments about what is interesting and important. Consequently, news people are not always willing to take criticism. To question an editor's judgment, they think, is paramount to questioning a bloodhound's nose. When news is the topic, few journalists will readily admit they are wrong, especially when non-journalists are raising the questions...
...made a "mistake," but stressed that she had been open about the infraction from the start. She blamed her husband for having failed to file Labor Department papers in a timely fashion, saying, "I would have pushed to make it more expeditious." She assumed responsibility for the lapse in judgment but blamed it on the pressures of motherhood...
...Clinton somehow still managed to miss the point. In his statements after her withdrawal, Clinton declared that he was "accepting the judgment" of his nominee that she would not be able to serve effectively. He made no moral judgment of his own; in fact, his letter to Baird said he would like to find another place for her in his Administration. Spokesman George Stephanopoulos suggested that the President thought Baird would make a fine Attorney General and that he was not happy that she withdrew. But that left him in a small minority...