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BY BRETT SAMUELS - 08/20/18 05:16 PM EDT
Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., a staunch supporter of President Trump, reportedly reviewed and rejected stories and opinion pieces written about the president in the school's student newspaper.
World Magazine, a Christian news publication, reported Monday that tensions rose between Falwell Jr. and the school newspaper, The Champion, when the Evangelical leader endorsed Trump for president in 2016.
Falwell Jr. reportedly required that editors disclose whom a columnist planned to vote for in the 2016 election.
When sports editor Joel Schmieg penned a column objecting to Trump's vulgar comments on the "Access Hollywood" tape that was released in October 2016, Falwell Jr. ordered the piece be spiked because the paper had already run one Trump column that week, World Magazine reported.
Schmieg told the publication that he posted the column on his Facebook page instead, and was warned by school staff against doing so in the future.
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http://thehill.com/homenews/media/402734-falwell-jr-killed-student-newspaper-articles-critical-of-trump-report
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)LakeArenal
(28,819 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You think Alex Jones or any of his meathead fanboiz will be denouncing Jerry Jr. anytime soon?
Girard442
(6,075 posts)Do you suppose Falwell even sees the irony?
no_hypocrisy
(46,116 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)When they're run by the college and/or student government they can't properly report news and tend to be propaganda.
Maraya1969
(22,482 posts)threads, especially the ones where he tries to act like a Christian.
https://tinyurl.com/ybnrtk7m Article
https://twitter.com/JerryFalwellJr
Oh and Liberty University
https://twitter.com/LibertyU
Thunderbeast
(3,411 posts)I would think that this would bring Liberty's tax-exempt status under question.