To this day, the New York Times and Columbia Journalism Review, which is the trade book of this industry, haven't written a word about Project Censored. So when I received the award from SPJ, which is a mainstream, professional journalism association, I was very pleased. It showed some recognition of the contribution that Project Censored has made nationally. Ever since the Hazelwood decision by the Supreme Court, which permitted high school principals and administrators to use prior restraint with student publications, I have seen a change in student journalists. By the time they come to college, they're very susceptible to administrative persuasion.
Pressure also comes from college advisors looking out for their own skin.
If you read the trade paper, every week there's some advisor getting the axe because they let something get into the student newspaper. To save themselves, advisors are even exerting influence on what the school newspaper should publish. They're quoting the Hazelwood decision as a means to censor student publications. And that's wrong. When they get out into the real world, they're ready to fall right in step with what the publishers and owners want, what the monopolies want, and all the rest.