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LA Times: Campus ink tanks

At the Jesse Helms Center in North Carolina, more than a dozen
earnest college students gathered for training in how to start
their own conservative newspapers and opinion journals and how to
pick fights with lefty bogeymen on the faculty and in student
government. "By the end of the day, the student journalists were
fired up for battle," writes John Johnson, "determined not only to
change the tenor of notoriously liberal campus dialogues, but also,
in the long run, to alter the basic makeup of the nation's
professional news outlets. ... In the wake of Sept. 11 and the war
on Iraq, seminars such as this one are brimming with recruits to
the battle for the hearts and minds of America's college students."