Antiwar Protest at MSU Demands Better Coverage from Student Newspaper

March 25, 2008 11:15 AM | | Comments (0)

On Thursday, an antiwar march at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan included a stop at the off-campus offices of the State News. The State News is a publicly financed newspaper--via a $5 tax collected per student each semester--that covers Michigan State University. Despite being the largest paper on campus, the State News refused to cover the antiwar demonstration--which had an attendance of around 400 people--because it claimed that the protest would be the same as Iraq anniversary protests held in previous years.

Instead of accepting this, protestors stopped at the State News and demanded that they reprint that day's paper. Additionally, they returned several copies of the paper to the office:

For more background information, see "MSU's State News Refuses to Cover War Protests, Shuts Protesters out of Student Funded Building."

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