He’s Replacing It With US Weekly
by matt at 6:00 am on June 30th, 2006 in Media, Religious Right / ExtremistsThe Times is in trouble now:
The Dean of Library Services at University of the Incarnate Word canceled the library’s subscription to the New York Times Wednesday to protest recent stories exposing a secret government program that monitors international financial transactions in the hunt for terrorists.
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“Since no one elected the New York Times to determine national security policy, the only action I know to register protest for their irresponsible action (treason?) is to withdraw support of their operations by canceling our subscription as many others are doing,” Mendell D. Morgan, Jr. wrote in a June 28 email to library staff. “If enough do, perhaps they will get the point.”
Ordinarily I’m a big supporter of “voting with one’s wallet,” and even in this case, I suppose it’s all in the game, but is Mendell Morgan going to cancel the government too?
sarabeth wrote:
Interesting that M.M. Jr. doesn’t cancel his own personal subscription, but the collective subscription of students. Maybe at the University of the Incarnate Word they believe that censorship is the best form of protest? Or maybe someone elected M.M. Jr. to protest on behalf of students?
I’m not familiar with this institution of higher learning. Is it an institution for the dissemination of Christo-fascism, or are the students there just sheeple?
Posted 30 Jun 2006 at 7:59 am ¶