expression, responsibility, censorship, and

I was going to do a blog about the "Rape Only Hurts If You Fight It" article written by CCSU student John Petroski and published as an Op/Ed at his school newspaper. I was going to outline the nuances between the

• freedom to express a personal opinion (exercised by the author and the newspaper)
• the freedom to say one does not like the opinion expressed(exercised by the gathering student body and hordes of internetters)
• the responsibility to represent the school professionally (ignored by the author and the newspaper, offending the university and the student body)
• and the need to treat subject matter properly (ignored by the author and the newspaper, offending the many who have been affected by rape).

I was going to draw in the Journalist's Code of Ethics and the Newspaper Editor's Code of Ethics. But, I think that I just did that, and new topics have been brought to my attention that I would rather spend the blog space on.

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more later