Monday, April 23, 2012

Sioux City, IA Journal devotes entire front page of Sunday edition to anti-bullying editorial

Following the "Siouxland" suicide of 14-year-old Kenneth Weishuhn, Jr., after intense harassment, Sioux City Journal editor Mitch Pugh devoted the entire front page of his paper's Sunday edition to an anti bullying editorial. Interviewed by the Des Moines Register, he said:
A lot of newspapers shy away from putting editorials on the front page, but we feel we have to be a strong advocate for our community.
     ...The Sioux City Journal's front-page opinion piece calls on the community to be pro-active in stopping bullying and urges members to learn more about the problem by seeing the acclaimed new film, "Bully," which documents the harassment of a Sioux City middle school student. It notes that while many students are targeted for being gay, "we have learned a bully needs no reason to strike."




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