Monday, July 18, 2011
Let Us Praise Strong Leaders
The indefatigable Kristi Brown over at Unions United brought my attention to a truly amazing editorial in the Southern on Sunday, which cites faculty and staff resistance as the main reason for supporting Chancellor Cheng. You read that right. We're dealing with a cult of strong leadership: a leader who incites opposition is strong and therefore good. Follow the corporate recipe, avoid any reference to evidence--including that printed by your own paper (see the last post)--and you can cook up this gruel. But as I have dashed off a letter to the editor attacking the editorial already, I will not give the Southern a reason to not publish it by commenting more here. They had the integrity to run a story on athletic spending: let's see if they will also publish a letter damning their editorial stance. I suspect mine will not be the only one.
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I think all faculty and staff should boycott The Southern Illinoisan. The Southern’s editorial board is obviously bias against faculty and staff. This is not the first time they have denounced faculty and staff at SIUC. Let’s all stop subscribing to the Southern.
ReplyDeletethe same is true of WSIU. It is little better than a propaganda machine for Cheng and Poshard. Community Radio (which has taken over programes axed by WSIU-PBS such as the Opera broadcasts from the New York Met afte rits 75th anniversary) should also not be supported.
ReplyDeleteWhat a disgusting editorial. This should make every working person in the region's skin crawl.
ReplyDeleteWhy would someone expressing their opinion, even if you do not agree with it, make anyone's skin crawl? Are we that unable to consider other points of view? Has it come to that?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: What do you have against community radio, which I assume means WDBX? Admittedly, I mainly listen to WDBX for music, but I haven't heard much about the bargaining in either direction there, despite several union activists volunteering there.
ReplyDeleteParanoid. Typo error. I meant "should be supported."
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