Federal aid story prompted Falwell to block Lynchburg News & Advance’s website

[Newsjock]

Source: Poynter Institute

News & Advance reporter Liz Barry wrote today that Jerry Falwell Jr.'s Liberty University blocked access to N&A’s website from at least one day last week, and that “Falwell did not elaborate on the reason.” I asked the reporter via e-mail if she had any idea what prompted Falwell’s move. Barry never responded, but I’ve since learned that she wrote the story that got the paper blocked.

LIBERTY TOPS STATE IN FEDERAL AID FOR ITS STUDENTS
By LIZ BARRY
Published: March 27, 2011

Liberty University students received approximately $445 million in federal financial aid money last fiscal year, according to U.S. Department of Education data, making LU the top recipient in Virginia.

... Salon.com linked to Barry’s story and pointed out the conservative college got more government cash than NPR last year. Romenesko is told that the Lynchburg paper’s aid story gave Liberty “a lot of headaches, to the extent they enlisted their DC public relations firm.”

Read more: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/127713/federal-story-prompted-falwell-to-block-lynchburg-news-advances-website/

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Edit to reflect correction made to source material

[murielm99]

1. Falwell died.

Is he orchestrating this from the other side?

[countmyvote4real]

2. Junior didn't. n/t

[murielm99]

7. K. LOL.

[Kingofalldems]

3. Sounds like a RW dictatorship

[Blue_Tires]

4. Censorship on a campus called "Liberty"

bloody brilliant!

[KamaAina]

5. 'Cause that worked so well for Hosni Mubarak

when he tried to crush dissent in Egypt. :sarcasm:

[SkyDaddy7]

KEEP IN MIND...Liberty U is training many of America's

future Conservatives & they want to turn America into a Theocracy! Of course to them it would not be a Theocracy just the way America should be...They should not be getting Federal Aid!!!!!!!


STUDENTS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO GET FEDERAL MONEY TO GO TO THESE RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS! Especially schools that teach an alternative history of America & what amounts to a joke when it comes to science!

[demigoddess]

12. tax breaks for churches and federal money, that is too much!!!

If they want to tithe that is up to them.

[SkyDaddy7]

8. Self Delete

LOL! I clicked the post comment button & nothing happened so I click it again & then again & it posted 3 times!

[SkyDaddy7]

9. Self delete

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[marions ghost]

6. Good God !!

$445 MILLION !?! in federal financial aid

HOW did this happen? HOW was this money used?

PLEASE somebody look into this!

I smell something fishy in Lynchburg.

[valerief]

10. I'm sure in this period of austerity they'll get double that next year. nt

[rpannier]

11. That's because God wants them to have the money nt

[ck4829]

13. K&R