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The fine folks over at The Tennessean bring us this interesting bit of news:
Inspired by a Breitbart News editor whose speeches have spurred protests at colleges across the country, state lawmakers on Thursday touted a bill that they said would protect free speech on Tennessee campuses.
While discussing the bill in a news conference, sponsors Rep. Martin Daniel and Sen. Joey Hensley referenced the protests against controversial conservative Milo Yiannopoulos, who is a senior editor at Breitbart. Violence erupted at a protest against a planned Yiannopoulos speech at the University of California, Berkeley, prompting officials there to cancel the speech. The lawmakers indicated that the violence had hampered the expression of conservative ideas at Berkeley. Similar issues have cropped up in Tennessee, they said.
Daniel, R-Knoxville, called his legislation "the Milo bill," and said it was "designed to implement oversight of administrators' handling of free speech issues."
Hensley, R-Hohenwald, said the bill was specifically tailored to defend students with conservative views that he said had been silenced in the past.
"We've heard stories from many students that are honestly on the conservative side that have those issues stifled in the classroom," Hensley said. "We just want to ensure our public universities allow all types of speech."
Glad to see my state getting this correct even though they can't pull their heads out of their asses about broadband competition.
[Ed. Note: The current bill has no summary on the Tennessee General Assembly site, but it is likely similar or identical to the previous year's version from the same sponsors which died in committee.]
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Cognizant on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:15AM
I was reading along taking it in just fine until someone had to insert his opinion about what is correct. It would be nice if you save your fucking opinion for the comments section and stop slopping all over the news headline please. I do not like my news run through a filter of any kind, Fox news, CNN or you. Thank you.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:52AM
I'm not entirely clear what the problem is. Are you talking about the headline, the comment after the blockquote, something on the Tennessean.com site, or something else?
If you are talking about the comment after the blockquote, it should be fairly obvious that text is written by TheMightyBuzzard. It is not "slopping all over the news headline" (maybe you meant "slopping all over the summary"?). This is not the first story to include a submitter's opinion near the end of the summary.
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(Score: 1) by Cognizant on Sunday February 12 2017, @05:26AM
It was obvious it was written by him surely. I am not a fan of what I perceive as to much opinion in my news. Maybe i miss the point of what your trying to do here with the headline portion. Is there not plenty of opinion in the comments without writers and editors flavoring a news story? Or in this case re-flavoring since it is simply a write up of a written story? I do understand it happened here before and I personally did not like it any more than now. No offense to Buzzard you or anyone else I just think that behavior is too common and someone needs to get writers of news to get out of the opinion business. I was interested in the story for itself. When someone is trying to get me the news i dont give a fuck what he thinks I just want the story. Then we can get down to debating the merits down here. I might be missing something here, i am getting old so that's happening a lot more lately, I just feel opinion should not get past editors. I love debate but I am just very tired of opinionated news. Maybe i am in the wrong place huh? Any way this is just MY opinion down here where i feel it belongs.
(Score: 2) by BK on Sunday February 12 2017, @06:47PM
I've railed about opinions in the stories before (more than once) but have come to realize that it is a feature of this site. That doesn't mean that I think the editors are infallible, but rather I recognize that they don't want to censor one or two lines of opinion on an otherwise interesting story.
I should also point out that if you go back a few months or even a year or more, you'll find lots of expression of opinions in front page articles, often contrary to the opinion that TMB offered here. Hell, SN's most infamous coward [soylentnews.org] puts one in most of his stories. If you are going to tolerate the one, it seems reasonable that you might tolerate the other...
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 1) by Cognizant on Sunday February 12 2017, @08:44PM
Thanks for your perspective.