U. Wisconsin Campus Paper Filled With Anti-Scott Walker Op-eds
It looks as though young journalists at the University of Wisconsin are preparing to join the MSM.
David Hookstead of the College Fix reported.
U. of Wisconsin campus paper fills pages with mostly anti-Scott Walker op-eds
Count by The College Fix finds roughly three times as many anti-Walker pieces than pro-Walker pieces in Wisconsin student newspaper’s opinion section in recent weeks.
MADISON, Wis. – Over the last month and a half, the opinion pages of the student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been crowded with arguments against Gov. Scott Walker, suggesting – among other things – that his platform will decimate higher education, ruin the environment and hurt the economy.
The launch of the second semester here in late January coincided with Gov. Walker’s prominent thrust into the national spotlight, with his higher education reforms and presidential prospects prompting a storm of criticism within the Badger Herald’s pages.
Since late January, the campus newspaper has published 20 anti-Scott Walker opinion pieces and letters to the editor, according to a review of the Badger Herald’s online opinion section by The College Fix. Two more pieces didn’t bash Walker directly, but cast him in a negative light.
In contrast, the newspaper has only published six pro-Walker pieces in that time. In effect, published anti-Walker opinion pieces outnumber pro-Walker ones by a ratio of about 3 to 1…
List of anti-Walker pieces since late January:
1. Walker’s success is contingent on legislative majorities
3. Candidate Walker is not concerned about higher education in Wisconsin
4. Proposal for public authority lacks transparency, adequate deliberation
5. Blind conservatism is moving Wisconsin in the wrong direction
6. Wisconsin State Parks are in peril due to Walker’s budget cuts
7. Public authority will result in loss of shared governance, essential program cuts
8. While Republicans become divided over budget issues, shared governance remains threatened
9. Better teachers, not vouchers, will help Wisconsin students
10. Balanced budgets may lead to social consequences, deeper recessions
11. Walker must accept Menominee deal to save face in budget controversy (Mostly neutral, but with negative slant toward Walker)
12. Walker’s budget will hurt more than just students
13. Walker’s budget – College Democrats
14. Enbridge pipeline could destroy Wisconsin’s environment, speed up global warming
15. Wisconsin Idea change is more than ‘drafting error’ (Mostly neutral, but with negative slant toward Walker)
16. UW split may cause higher tuition and diminish student voice
17. State of the State vs. State of the Union – (by College Democrats)
19. Letter: College Republicans put politics before productive debate in response to nasty emails
20. Letter: City must stand against budget cuts, public authority status
21. Letter: Concern over budget cuts is based on facts, not rhetoric
22. Letter: Proposed budget cuts provide UW chance to reconnect [against Walker]
List of pro-Walker pieces since late January:
1. Letter to the Editor: Long-term flexibility for UW System will alleviate cuts
2. State of the State vs. State of the Union (by College Republicans)
3. Washington could learn from Wis. education reforms (by College Republicans)
4. Walker’s Budget (by College Republicans)
5. Campus should address budget with healthy debate (by College Republicans)
6. Right-to-work debate (by College Republicans)
U. of Wisconsin campus paper fills pages with mostly anti-Scott Walker op-eds (The College Fix)
Comments
I am surprised they did not try to blame Walker for fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes… The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!