Falwell, Jr. forces college paper to cut anti-Trump article
Just what we want to see in academia.
One of Donald Trump’s surrogates used his position at a university to force the student paper’s editors to cut an article that criticized Trump’s so-called “locker room talk” from the Access Hollywood tape.
The piece, written by Liberty University student and Liberty Champion sports editor Joel Schmieg, took the position that talk like Trump’s “grab ’em by the pussy” remarks are never heard in the locker rooms he’s been in.
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According to the Daily Beast, president Jerry Falwell Jr., a passionate supporter of Trump’s, called on the editors of the paper to cut Schmieg’s column because he felt there was too much focus on Trump in that issue.
“[My editors] read the email to me. He said, basically, the gist was that there were two articles this week about Trump,” Schmieg told The Daily Beast on Tuesday. “One was a letter to the editor from a Liberty alum, and they didn’t want two things running about him.”
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