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SEPTEMBER 1992 Sharp-suited Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca stars in his final ad for the auto giant. The tag line: "If you can find a better...
...condemnations of the paper thieves. What is most concerning about the Brown debacle is not the theft or its intellectually dishonest defenders, but rather the assumption, equally shared by the Third World coalition and many of its detractors, that newspapers are ideological monoliths--that the decision to accept an ad or revise a story can be motivated only by political biases and not by honest deliberation on journalistic principles. After all, the Daily Herald printed the advertisement even though it has taken no position on reparations for slavery in the last two years, and The Crimson chose not to accept...
...Herald's decision to print the ad was based on a desire for open debate and discussion, valid reasons indeed for a newspaper dedicated to and protected by the freedom of the press. Unfortunately, Brown University seems as if it is unsure whether to support the freedom of its daily newspaper. The interim president has qualified her criticism of the theft, and the faculty panel discussion that was scheduled in place of a more open student gathering was remarkably uniform in its condemnation of the advertisement. We urge the university to change its course and draw a clear line between...
...need to inform readers is paramount. Indeed, after The Crimson chose not to accept the advertisement, its editorial department contacted Horowitz and offered to consider an opinion piece on the subject, an offer he refused. The Crimson's news department also included the full text of the ad as an illustration to its March 7 story, judging that readers would not be able to understand the issue in context without having access to Horowitz's statements. No uproar followed, proving that Harvard's student body is able to listen to contrary viewpoints--even controversial ones--and to recognize the value...
Whether or not to accept the advertisement is a valid decision for newspapers to make, and neither conclusion legitimates the response of stealing newspapers. Indeed, the copies of the Herald that were stolen did not even contain the offending ad, but only articles defending it. The theft was pure retribution, and the tenor of the "demands" levied by the protesters--free advertising space, the donation of the purchase price to campus minority organizations--seem to indicate a desire for payback rather than a concern for standards. The arguments to justify the theft--that it was not theft because the Herald...