Posted on Wednesday, 9 June 2010

Student journalism haters, take note. There is a larger lesson to be gleaned from this saga and others like it over the past academic year. Nowadays, when a breeze becomes a storm and student press freedom is threatened or torn, j-students will not sit quietly or throw up their ink-stained hands in defeat. They have the organizational structure, outside legal and advocacy group support, professional media backing, and the power of the web to enable misdeeds aimed at collegemediatopia to become known and earn mass condemnation (and a related PR nightmare).
Dan Reimold, Ph.D, the impassioned blogger who maintains College Media Matters, a great blog on the goings on of student journalism across the country. Reimold is commenting on the victory of The Breeze, JMU’s student newspaper, which — with the help of on-campus legals groups — fought the unfair trespassing and seizure of photos from the newsroom by university officials. 

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