Last week, I wrote an article exposing how Louisiana State University’s student newspaper The Daily Reveille censored one of their sports writers for daring to speak out against the “Muslim ban” lie in a public forum. The article exposed five student employees of LSU’s Office of Student Media, including three non-opinion writers for The Daily Reveille, who violated a supposed “decades-long” policy of writers not commenting on political matters.
The student at the center of the controversy, Chris Caldarera, met with the management of the newspaper to discuss The Daily Wire‘s article and what it said about the newspaper.
“The meeting went well, and they aren’t firing me,” Caldarera told The Daily Wire via direct message on Twitter. “They came off as very contrite, and told me that, while their intention wasn’t to purposely silence a conservative opinion, they saw the evidence that suggested otherwise. They understand that having a ‘decades old’ unwritten policy is no good, and they want to work with management and the staff to get something in writing and universally enforce the policy.”
Caldarera stated that while he did not intend to harm the newspaper’s credibility, he did want to expose the hypocrisy of their editorial staff and upper management’s handling of the situation toward him while remaining silent when its liberal writers openly publicized their politics.
This is a tremendous victory not only for conservatives on college campuses, but it is a much larger victory for free speech. In admitting their own biases, The Daily Reveille will be held accountable when it fails to hold its writers equally accountable regardless of their political views. This also represents a massive defeat for campus leftism and its quest to silence dissenting voices. Even though leftists viciously booed Caldarera at their moronic rally, they amplified his voice through their collective intolerance. Better yet, their allies within the student newspaper can no longer keep his voice or anyone else’s voice silent anymore.
The tide is turning on college campuses. Day by day, these small victories against the left will help us win the battle of ideas and the war against the values that the United States was founded upon.
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