Teacher suspended for teaching real journalism

Found on The Inquirer on Thursday, 02 March 2006
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A michigan teacher has been suspended after her students produced a hard hitting documentary about the perils of Myspace.com.

Devon Fralick approved the eight minute documentary by two Lakeview High School students which tried to warn classmates about the dangers of putting personal information on the Internet.

Images were taken from the Myspace.com and blurred, but school administrators felt that the broadcast's message "was lost because of the selection of photographs, language and music" that was included.

Fralick was escorted from the school soon after the show was broadcast, much to the horror of the teens who made the show. Neil Willoughby, 17, a junior at the school who helped put together the presentation said that it was ludicrous as if anyone should take the heat for this, it should be him.

Seriously, what's up with all those MySpace news lately? One might think that the rest of the net is safe and all evil concentrates there.