N.Y. Times Opinion: Censorship 101

An editorial in last Sunday's New York Times criticized the censorship tactics of Ocean County College against Karen Bosley and the Viking News. Here's an excerpt and a link...

Sometimes justice really does win out, at least partially. Take the case of Karen Bosley, a tenured journalism professor at Ocean County College in New Jersey who has been faculty adviser to the college’s newspaper for 35 years. For most of that time, she was allowed to do her job without interference, and the newspaper won some 70 awards...

...Last December, the college trustees voted against renewing Ms. Bosley’s contract as the newspaper’s adviser for the 2006-7 school year. She was also reassigned from her job as journalism professor to professor of English, a subject she had only limited experience in teaching.

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