College journalists have a long tradition of publishing fake news on April Fool’s Day and an equally long tradition of getting in trouble for it (see here and here and here and …).
The latest student journalist to step down as a result of an April Fool’s misfire is Chelsea Diana, who was editor in chief of The Daily Free Press, Boston University’s student newspaper. The joke issue of the paper made light of date rape, among other things, just months after two of the university’s hockey players were accused of sexually assaulting students in separate incidents.
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