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The subject of this thread was the action taken the other day by the new coach, Bo Pelini, in response to an editorial he didn’t like in the student newspaper. The Daily Nebraskan had questioned his handling of disciplinary cases; Pelini blew up and briefly banned the paper’s reporters from the practice field.
But one poster did squarely face the underlying constitutional question. “Who says we have a right to know? Where does it say that?” the poster asserted. He or she then provided an exegesis of the First Amendment, focusing on the passage “. . . . or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press . . . ,” consulting an online dictionary to be exact about what abridge means, and triumphantly concluding, “No where does it say the public has a right to know, neither does it say that whatever the paper wants it gets.”
