June 18, 2004
Sense and Censorship
In April, one week after a former professional football player died in combat, The Daily Collegian at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst published a graduate student's opinion article under the headline "Pat Tillman is not a hero: He got what was coming to him."
By the time the smoke cleared, the paper's Web site had crashed under the crush of angry e-mail messages, UMass's president was demanding an apology to Cpl. Tillman's family, and the author, Rene Gonzalez -- well
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