another comment caught my eye, too. paraphrase: the second piece that, presumably appeared on the editorial page where it belongs…

did we not just heap (well-deserved) praise on the freep for editorializing on 1a? ok, auburn’s issues don’t compare to the dismantling of an entire city’s economic structure, but just as the freep’s duty is to the Detroit area, the plainsman’s duty is to the auburn campus. I don’t see much difference in bravery on either paper’s part.

the creep did what the did in the inerest of readers and the community, the plainsman did the same, and with potentially more dire consequences: the total death of auburn-only, auburn-centric news.

I ramble and admit I’ve not read the editorial, but what it says, whiney and woe-is-us or not I applaud the bold move; the desperate move. just as I did with Detroit. could the complaints have been better-written? I don’t have to read it to know. no offense to auburn’s hard-working journalists, but they’re students. most of the paper, controversy or not, could be better written. and again, I come back to the point that these kids will learn from this, and I make a sour face at those who have decided point-blank that they’d never hire these kids. I hope you pass on the next Woodward or royko.

woo. I got chatty. sorry

And the incident in question was the infamous blank front page with the words, “Speak Louder, we can’t hear you,” or something of that sort.