by Bill Rickards
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

October 7, 2019

Famous New York Yankees coach and manager Yogi Berra once said, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” That’s close to how it feels here at FIRE when we hear student newspapers have been stolen from stands on campus.

Take, for example, the most recent case of newspaper theft at Radford University, where about 1,000 copies of Radford’s student newspaper, The Tartan, went missing from newsstands following the publication of controversial articles. This type of press censorship is something FIRE has written about again and again.

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“How long are we going to wait?” Editor in chief criticizes Radford’s newspaper theft investigation. By the Student Press Law Center,  Feb. 2020.