F-Word Editor at Colorado State Keeps Job [View All]

Source: InsideHigherEd.com

J. David McSwane, who wrote the now notorious editorial about President Bush for The Rocky Mountain Collegian, will keep his job. The editorial contained two words, one of them starting with an F, and set off many calls for McSwane to lose his position as the top editor at the student paper at Colorado State University. But The Rocky Mountain News reported that at a hearing Thursday, the board that oversees the newspaper voted to admonish McSwane, calling the editorial “unethical and unprofessional” and a violation of the newspaper’s ban on the use of profane words in opinion writing. But the board declined to fire McSwane.

Read more: http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/05/qt

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I wrote about this case in my weekly newspaper column recently, saying he should not have been fired:

http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2007/10/05/editorial/rich_lewis/lewis56.txt