>> 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, *---------------------------------------------------------* |Jeff Billman |Signature Under Construction | [log in to unmask] |/////////////////////////////| |Bowling Green State Univ. | CAUTION: WORK AREA | |Bowling Green, OH |\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\| |Other info by request. | This Is A Hard Hat Area | *---------------------------------------------------------*