Editor’s note: This is in response to the Daily Lobo’s decision to censor its Wednesday edition to show solidarity with the Central New Mexico Community College’s student newspaper The Chronicle, which CNM administrators shut down on Tuesday. The paper was reinstated on Wednesday. See the story on Page 1 for details.
Editor,
I would like to begin quickly with the fact that I am glad you are taking the CNM censorship as seriously as it should be, and I commend the fact you are trying to use the Daily Lobo as a tool to combat the censorship. But you’re going about it wrong — very wrong, in fact. Do you honestly think the suits at CNM care that the Daily Lobo is no longer printing as a protest? The only way you’re going to make these business people listen to you is to talk their language: business. Affect their cash income; that will help them be more compromising. Try taking your staff down to CNM and protest with signs and pictures, or even better, use those journalistic skills and dig up dirt on these CNM fat cats. You can’t treat them like normal, moral people. They just proved they aren’t by taking away a principal constitutional right.
Caedmon Holland
UNM student
