BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — For Marissa Meador, the co-editor in chief of the Indiana Daily Student, Indiana’s incoming Lt. Governor’s public rebuke of the paper earlier this week came as a complete shock.
”Beckwith’s comments implying that he would try to stop publication of the IDS is concerning to us,” Meador said.
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On Tuesday, Lt. Governor-Elect Beckwith lambasted the paper on X, formerly known as Twitter, for what he calls “elitist leftist propaganda,” and demanded the paper stop or “we will be happy to stop it for them.”
“We believe it’s our first amendment right to publish without prior review or control from state government,” Meador said.
Beckwith also accused the paper of running on taxpayer dollars—something Meador said is not true.
”We are funded with advertising dollars and other revenue like donations from alumni, mainly,” Meador said. ”We pay around a $30,000 tax each year to the university…We aren’t receiving any direct money from IU, and certainly not taxpayer funds.”