RadioActive presents an exclusive interview with Marissa Blazsko, former Opinions Editor for The Recorder, CCSU’s student newspaper.  Blazsko was fired from her position after participating in political activism on campus and in the community.  On RadioActive, Blazsko discusses the implications of The Recorder’s actions on current and future journalists, as well as the selective application of rights to “free speech.”  When the newspaper was in hot water in the past for racist and sexist material, it justified itself through free speech.   However, the concept has not been applied to Blazsko’s case, even though her activism had no measurable, detrimental consequences for her job at the newspaper.

In her fight to get her job back, Blazsko has been documenting the situation on a new blog: http://freespeechcentral.wordpress.com Her latest post describes a partial victory which occurred on May 1.  Here’s one of the results:

On May Day 2009, the Central State Connecticut University Media Board motioned to reexamine the constitution of every media outlet at CCSU, including it’s own. This means that at their first meeting of next semester, the Media Board may officially choose to change its own constitution in a way which would give it the power to act upon its recommendations for The Recorder–including reinstatements and constitutional amendments.