October 12, 2001
U. of Missouri TV Station Criticized
A television station owned by the University of Missouri at Columbia has come under fire from state lawmakers for barring its newscasters from wearing red-white-and-blue ribbons.
Some legislators in Missouri threatened last month to try to reduce the university's state appropriation in response to the television station's policy, which they criticized as unpatriotic and as a violation of the free-speech rights of station employees. Most or all of the lawmakers backed away from their
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