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That $5 fee you pay each semester for The State
News generates at least a half-million
dollar subsidy each year (click
here for the calculations). Yet
the non-profit campus newspaper also
wants a monopoly on the best reporters, editors and photogaphers.
All staffers must
sign a contract saying they won't write for other campus
media or risk being fired.
Efforts to persuade the newspaper to change this monopolistic
policy have so far failed. So we are bringing the debate to you.
Here are three Open Letters
to The State News from:
- Purpose Magazine -
Adviser Sandra Combs Birdiett writes:
"It has been brought to my attention that The State News’ editorial
managers have chosen a discriminatory policy concerning who can
write for the independent, off-campus but MSU student-funded newspaper.
Essentially, SN is taxing staffers and readers of Purpose Magazine
without giving them representation in the paper and on the news
staff." . . . more
- Spartan
Weekly -
Editor Matt Lieber writes: "You're [The State News]
in the key position to be the media leader, but it seems you'd
rather lock yourselves in your new clubhouse and not let anyone
else come
in and play." . . . more
- SpartanEdge.com -
Publisher Bonnie Bucqueroux writes: ". . . your mistake lies
in seeing publications that complement yours as your competitors." .
. . more
