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Texas University Cancels Subscription to NY Times

The library director at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio has canceled the library’s subscription to The New York Times to protest articles revealing a covert government program to track terrorist financing.

“Since no one elected the New York Times to determine national security policy, the only action I know to register protest for their irresponsible action (treason?) is to withdraw support of their operations by canceling our subscription as many others are doing,” Morgan wrote in a Wednesday e-mail to library staffers.

Good for them. If I had a subscription to the NY Times, I would have canceled it over this, too.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Friday, June 30th, 2006 | Trackback |

8 Responses to “Texas University Cancels Subscription to NY Times”

I have a subscription, and it’s good to know you and the Texans will remain ill-informed. It cracks me up that the reason they are taking this action is that the NYT published information that just about everyone in the world, terrorists included, but (apparently) ignorant Texans excluded, already knew or suspected.

Left by Dan on June 30th, 2006 at 12:18 pm

Really, Dan? You knew about this program before the NY Times reported on it?

Left by Robbie on June 30th, 2006 at 12:35 pm

I knew that international financial transactions attract the scrutiny of government officials. Didn’t you?

Left by Dan on June 30th, 2006 at 12:44 pm

If just about everybody in the world knew about it, why did the NY Times bother to front page it? hmmmm

Left by dianne on June 30th, 2006 at 12:53 pm

How they were doing it - without the involvement of other branches, and without proper safeguards for the use of the data gathered, was newsworthy. The fact they had access to the information was absolutely not news to anybody - terrorists included.

This faux outrage over the New York Times is a show put on by deeply cynical politicians, who realize that beating up on the press is even more popular than beating up on the government, and by truly foolish bloggers, who aren’t thinking about the obvious fact that no news of interest to terrorists has been passed on by the New York Times.

Left by Dan on June 30th, 2006 at 4:02 pm

Good for them. If I had a subscription to the NY Times, I would have canceled it over this, too.

Well if you were just cancelling your own personal subscription, that would be no big deal.

However, Morgan is abusing his position as a librarian to prevent patron access to the newspaper. This goes against everything librarians work for (I am an aspiring librarian in library school now, btw).

Left by Jaxebad on June 30th, 2006 at 10:16 pm

Oh, bull! No one is preventing anyone from having access if they want it. The few people that look at the one paper copy of the NYT in the library can either buy their own, go to another library, or use the many computers at the library and access it on line. What the librarian is doing is refusing to fund the NYT ’s aiding of terrorism. Good for him.

Left by Anonymous on July 1st, 2006 at 11:46 am

Hey, anonymous - how did the NYT aid terrorism? Answer: they didn’t, and only foolish people are gullible enough to believe the rightwing talking points.

Left by Dan on July 1st, 2006 at 2:57 pm

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