Censorship Of College Newspapers

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Newspapers are one of the main source to spread the news and information among people and make people aware of different incidents. In addition to that they provide with the ideas of what’s going around them and around the world. Likewise, the college newspaper also provides the information on the events and the incidents happening on the college, so I think the college newspapers should be given an absolute free speech with no censorship from faculty.

School newspaper helps the students to encourage for writing the articles that, they have visited personally. It adds the confidence in student as they could easily realize their potential and can express their writings among the students through the newspaper as school newspapers are mainly written by college students. There might be a game on the college and a student writer can evaluate the game as per his observation and let the other students like him/her about the events in game. Furthermore, the college papers influence not only the students but also the faculty as they can also get involved with the paper through their students. The students might get informed about the whereabouts of the college as the college newspaper is basically focuses on the news regarding the school.
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As the college newspaper is mostly written by college writers which are not mature enough to make the right choices and there might be some information that shouldn’t be public in which there might be the need of

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