Sniper, your view point is extremely sad. You obviously were never in a newspaper class. The newspaper is a great way to learn how to operate a newspaper in a very hands on setting. That includes fund raising.

You get the same amount of hands on in newspaper as you do in woodshop. Producing an article about a student's death is a pretty far cry from gossip. The opposite I'd say.

I wrote for my school newspaper for a few year. We had to fund it ourselves. The teacher was also the English teachers for all the grades. Some pretty disappointing view points in this thread. Very sad.