Newsgroups: soc.college Subject: CODOH's paid advertisements: Michigan State (2/4) Summary: Letters to the editor address CODOH's advertisement regarding the Holocaust Memorial museum in Washington, D.C. Followup-To: alt.revisionism Distribution: world Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac Keywords: CODOH Archive/File: orgs/american/codoh/university.response msu.002 Last-Modified: 1993/10/20 _The State News_ of Michigan State University Wednesday, October 20, 1993 ADVERTISEMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED, PUBLISHED editorial by John-Paul Checkett, Assistant Faculty/Counseling Center I was surprised and saddened to open the Oct. 15 edition of The State News and discover a paid advertisement for CODOH, a Holocaust revisionist group. ["A Revisionist's View of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C." by the Committe for Open Debate On the Holocaust - CODOH] While I certainly will not question your right to print the advertisement, I believe this incident raises some disturbing questions regarding your editorial judgement. By printing such an advertisement, you are stating in no uncertain terms that you are willing to disseminate hate literature for a price. It angers me to consider not only the possibility that there is actually a market for the CODOH's anti-Semitic diatribes on this campus, but also the implication that, in your judgement, it would somehow benifit this campus for The State News to serve as a clearinghouse for hate groups. Although newspapers that are willing to help such groups in return for financial gain certainly may have the right to exist, such a periodical is not one that I would care to be associated with, and I assume others on campus share this opinion. Surely one cannot argue that providing CODOH with a forum to present its views without opposing comment or debate is equivalent to presentin a news story exposing the prevalence of bigotry in our society. Thus, I would like to know the editorial policy concerning such matters. Are you open to full-page advertisements promoting the Ku Klux Klan? The Aryan Nation? Groups advocating pedophilia? I would also like to know how comfortable The State News feels acepting money from such organizations. Followups directed to alt.revisionism
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