Well, thanks to the overseeing eye of the BYU administration, we actually had to eliminate a few of the already low supply of caption contest entries due to the recent resurgence of administrative censorship.Here's the original winner before it was axed by the "thought police":
"Oh, doom, did Elder Christofferson just say 'social justice'?" - Parker Brown, Eagar, Ariz.
Here are the ones that were fit to print:
First place:"Yeah, my HDTV stays on the Fox News channel." - Kyle Pulsipher, Mesquite, Nev.
Second place:"I hope Brother Reid is watching." - Doug Vanderwerken, Scotia, N.Y.
*(page 3)
What kind of censorship is going down? Is this because of the nudey pics that weren't even mentioned in your newspaper?
ReplyDeleteI believe so. I don't know the whole story, because I'm not quite an official editor yet so I'm not in the official loop. But here's a list of what I know has been scrutinized or flat-out cut out of the paper:
ReplyDelete- In today's story about Redbox and Netflix, they had to make sure in the photo there weren't any rated R movies visible on the Redbox machine
- A story about using the term "Mormon" instead of "LDS" or something else
- I don't know what story it was for, but there was some science story and there was a paragraph taken out involving the study of sexual intercourse among rabbits.
That's all I heard or all I can remember. Maybe once I take over at the Issues & Opinion desk I will inherit the inside scoop.
Those darn Mormons at the daily universe! Such a bad influence on kids these days...
ReplyDeleteAlready some material for the opinions page, huh? Unless that gets censored out, too...
The rabbits story wasn't even about a study. The paragraph just used the phrase "mate like rabbits." I will email you the "inside scoop," as you put it, sometime soon, because you deserve to know. There are many, many more ridiculous examples where that came from.
ReplyDeleteLove,
A DU staff member who should remain unamed while editorializing on a public forum
and JJ, you should totally forward that email to me once you get it. I'm always up for the latest gossip.
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