Truth is assaulted in Tennessee
A newspaper at a High School in Tennessee was censored by its administration for having the audacity to warn students about birth control, as well as report the truth about tattooing among high school students.
Here's the address: http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051129/NEWS04/51129004/1001/NEWS
"The seizure of the newspapers had sparked debate inside and outside the school. Monday night's school board meeting drew a large crowded that included students who wore tape with the word "censored" across their mouths and shirts with protest messages that read "Ignorance isn't bliss.""
Here's what I have to say: the schools administration is mad because the paper is telling students something the administration doesn't want them to know. In effect, they would be embarrassing the school and its teaching.
Thus, I quote Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black:
"The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government."
This came from the ruling from a case where the government tried to keep the press from saying something the government didn't want the people to know: New York Times Co. v. United States. In that case, the press found the government had been lying about how it had been doing in the Vietnam War, and the government tried to keep them from publishing the proof.
I see a connection, how about you?
***EDIT***
I can't say for certain whether what they did was legal or not, it depends on state laws. For example, such prior restraint is illegal in Kansas.
What I'm trying to say is that they're doing something cheap, pathetic and wrong. They are trying to stifle out the truth, and I disagree with that.
Here's the address: http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051129/NEWS04/51129004/1001/NEWS
"The seizure of the newspapers had sparked debate inside and outside the school. Monday night's school board meeting drew a large crowded that included students who wore tape with the word "censored" across their mouths and shirts with protest messages that read "Ignorance isn't bliss.""
Here's what I have to say: the schools administration is mad because the paper is telling students something the administration doesn't want them to know. In effect, they would be embarrassing the school and its teaching.
Thus, I quote Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black:
"The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government."
This came from the ruling from a case where the government tried to keep the press from saying something the government didn't want the people to know: New York Times Co. v. United States. In that case, the press found the government had been lying about how it had been doing in the Vietnam War, and the government tried to keep them from publishing the proof.
I see a connection, how about you?
***EDIT***
I can't say for certain whether what they did was legal or not, it depends on state laws. For example, such prior restraint is illegal in Kansas.
What I'm trying to say is that they're doing something cheap, pathetic and wrong. They are trying to stifle out the truth, and I disagree with that.
posted by Logan C. Adams at 11/29/2005 03:48:00 PM
3 Comments:
Students don't have the same rights as others in a number of areas, such as searches of school lockers. Is that right? I don't know.
Logan, you should remember that a very similar thing almost happened at the ole trailblazer.
jm
my point being... in kansas, administrators do have the right to stop publishment of any school press.
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