Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some point, both for individuals and for institutional bodies, there comes a time when one must take a moral stand. Newspapers cannot hold themselves apart from this imperative because, contrary to what we might like to believe, we create social trends as much as we reflect them...
...corporation which espouses the need for ethics and moral responsibility in business, The Crimson must hold itself to the same standard we would impose on any other institution...
...accepting any advertising, we put ourselves in a difficult position. Clearly, we need businesses' money to survive as a newspaper. But, financially, we don't need to accept all advertisements from all companies. In pulling Eastern's advertisement, we are not asserting that we can achieve any moral purity; rather we hope to take a step in the right direction because doing something is better than doing nothing...
...editors, we acknowledge that we must have a moral consciousness. And, in examining our values, we find our publication of Eastern's sales pitch to be reprehensible...
...instead of proving their moral superiority to fascism, the protesters sunk to Mlot-Mroz's level, shouting him down and forcing him to leave. Had the organizers handled Mlot-Mroz differently--by giving him five uninterrupted minutes to speak, for instance--Mlot-Mroz would have made clear his loony positions and would not have been able to present himself as a persecuted victim...