>> Second off, I think it's pretty lame. A newspaper is in the business of
>> REPORTING news. This is an example of them making news. [snip] They can
>> criticize it in their editorials, if they wish. They can urge such
>> schools to change their names. But they have an obligation to report
>> the facts, in their news stories. To do otherwise is journalistically
>> dubious.
>
>Well, I have a # of problems with this myself.
>
>1.  Newspapers are (or, in many cases, *should be*) doing more than just
>reporting the news.
 
Could you give us an example?  Or are you from the school of thought that
says journalists should change the world (which they most decidedly should
not)?
 
>2.  I don't see how failing to use a school's nickname is in any way
>failing to fulfill a paper's obligation to report the news.  The *news*
>is the score, what happened during the game.  Not School A, whose
>nickname is XYZ, beat School B, whose nickame is 123.
 
They are not failing their obligation to report the news.  They are,
however, failing their obligation to stay impartial- to stay out of the
news.  Many noted journalists (including, I believe, Walter Cronkite) have
gone on record as saying that journalists should take great pains not to
become part of a story,
 
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