Ocean County Observer: Time for OCC to admit its mistake and rehire Bosley

I'm trying to keep up with all the media coverage surrounding the plight of Prof. Karen Bosley and the Viking News staff, but my real job has been keeping me extremely busy.

Anyway...this editorial was published in the Aug. 11 issue of the Ocean County Observer. Here is an excerpt:

A federal judge has put her back in the position, ruling the paper's student editors are likely to prevail in a lawsuit where they claim she got the ax because the paper has been highly critical of OCC President Dr. Jon Larson and his administration...

...It is a temporary injunction that bars the college from replacing her — an injunction likely to become permanent if the suit continues. The federal court said to allow Bosley to be purged would have an "impermissibly chilling effect on the paper's student editors' freedom of expression in future issues." The suit is one of several swirling out of complaints by the student journalists and their mentor, and other staff members who claim their contracts were not renewed because they were critical of the administration.