Eminent Domain

This is hilarious. Marquette Tribune Editorial Page Editor John Heiderscheidt gave Prof. McAdams the "Shut the hell up" award. Heiderscheidt has taken issue with McAdams' criticisms in the past, but the flap over the Trib's new ethics policy pushed the editor over the edge. How do I get considered for this illustrious award?

Heiderscheidt lets fly...

I'm all for criticism. It makes us better professionals. But I won't sit around and take any more abuse from a person who knows nothing about journalism. Do I come into your office and spout off about the standards of political science? No. Know why? Because I don't know the first thing about it. Keep that in mind the next time you want to talk jive about journalism.

He's all for criticism, as long as it comes from a narrow group of individuals. This is a freaking student newspaper. It's not like the folks at the Trib are running a nuclear reactor and McAdams is telling them what buttons to push. He and many others have taken issue with the strange ethics policy.

Oh, and what's with the "talk jive" thing? Did I wander into a Starsky and Hutch rerun? Maybe Heiderscheidt should stop hanging out with Huggy Bear and spend his time crafting a sensible ethics policy for his newspaper. Solid!