The great Salient censorship debate

Salient, as the locals will know, is the Victoria University student newspaper. The editor this year is Emily Braunstein. Last week she introduced a new policy, which she explains in her editorial. The gist is that she will no longer publish all letters to the editor, but reserves the right to not print ones which basically just say “The President is a female body part etc”.

Sounds pretty reasonable to me. However some people objected and have called for Ms Braunstein to be sacked for this change in policy. As one can see with the poster below:

The photo was supplied by one of the spies, so I am presuming, but not sure, that is Ms Braunstein pictured next to the poster calling for her sacking.

Now Jeremy, the VUWSA President, has been quite amused by all this. He did not in fact mind lots of letters abusing him in Salient (any publicity is good publicity? 🙂 and briefly blogged about the issue on his blog, until it was pointed out that as the editor’s employer, he might need to not comment in case the sacking call becomes serious.

So will students’ right to call their president a c**t in Salient be restored? Will the daring young Emily survive the move to sack her? Will the identities of those behind the sacking move be revealed? To find out tune in on the same bat-time, on the same bat-day, on the same bat-channel!