Just realized our campus paper's 'fact-check' op-eds were getting pulled. Tried submitting mine as a formal letter to the editor instead. It ran unchanged.

Happened at my state school in Ohio. The editorial board has been killing conservative-leaning opinion pieces under their new 'misinformation policy'. My piece was about the stats behind a recent protest's disruption claims. Got rejected twice. So I used the exact same text, but formatted it as a 'Letter to the Editor' and sent it to the generic submissions inbox. No byline, just my name and year. They printed it verbatim in the next issue. Seems like the student editors weren't applying the same scrutiny to that section. Anyone else found a workaround like this when the opinion gatekeepers get heavy-handed?

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rowanhernandez13d ago

That reminds me of a time my friend got a poem published by just calling it a review.

leehall13d ago

My buddy once submitted a short story to a contest by labeling it as a "critical essay." It was just a weird ghost story, but they printed it. Reminds me of what @rowanhernandez said about the poem review. He still has the certificate.

smith.parker13d ago

Wait, didn't lee say it was a story in a contest, not published?