Talk:Student publication

What's with the heavy canada focus? Give some examples of school controlled newspapers' websites and some independent ones. (unsigned 85.250.66.143

I don't see it being Canada heavy. There is a section for America and a section for Canada? And please sign your messages in the future by typing ~~~~ at the end. -- Rediahs 23:42, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What makes Varsity the UK's most famous student newspaper? This seems to be a personal option and is unverifiable. graemep 01:27, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrite

I'm going to undertake a major revision of this article, as it seems to have gotten very confused along the way. The paragraph about U.S. papers is focused entirely on high school papers (except for the last sentence), and it then transitions into a discussion about Canadan college press with "in contrast." Apples and oranges, people. The result is a totally bizarre notion that U.S. college newspapers are subject to more censorship than their Canadian or British counterparts, and there's just no evidence of that, because in the U.S., at the college level, state funding is not conditioned on government interference, thanks primairly to the First Amendment.

In (far belated) response to the question as to why it's "Canada heavy," the U.S. has around ten times the schools that Canada does, yet there's only one mention of a U.S. college paper, and 11 Canadian college papers. Obviously, this is an artifact of the confusion as to what the real subject of the article was to begin with, and the result of a dumping of large amounts of college information in an article that hadn't had any real college discussion to begin with; but it does skew the viewpoint as to the relative scope of student journalism. In other words, it's not "Canada heavy" because Canadian information needs to be removed, per se (although the list of student newspapers is pointless, as we have another entry for that); it's just "U.S. light" if we're going to go into that level of depth.

I'll give this a couple days to see if anyone has anything else to add, but my plan at this point is to break it down into separate sections by country; trim the "laundry-list" information about specific student newspapers, but include links to the lists by country/state/province; and write a section about U.S. colleges. Once that's done it'll hopefully give further cleanup ideas. Junkmale 16:10, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problems here, Junkmale. As long as the article is going to be more international in scope, and fair to all, then I think it deserves a rewrite. -- Agendum 14:37, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. This is really biased against U.S. student journalism. I think. --