User:Cullen328/Sandbox/Centurion


 * Keep Salon.com ran an article in 2005 here that has four paragraphs about The Centurion. The publication has been discussed in New York Times articles about founder James O'Keefe at least three times, here, here, and here. The Centurion has also been discussed in a profile of O'Keefe in the Star-Ledger here, and the Home News Tribune here. This publication has been discussed more extensively in reliable, independent sources than the vast majority of campus publications.  The article should be moved to a new name, The Centurion since that is the actual name of the magazine, not "Rutgers Centurion".

Reply Please note that the most significant, in depth coverage of The Centurion, the four paragraph description in Slate.com, mentions O'Keefe only in its first paragraph. It discusses several other staffers by name as well, as the coverage goes on for another three paragraphs. It is not at all unusual that controversial and notable publications are almost always discussed in reliable sources in connection with their founding editors or publishers. Examples that come immediately to mind include The Liberator and William Lloyd Garrison, Der Stürmer and Julius Streicher, and The Realist and Paul Krassner. My informed guess is that it would be very difficult to find discussion of any of these three notable publications without mention of the three notable men closely associated with them. So it is with The Centurion. The same thing could be said of coverage in independent reliable sources of the San Francisco Examiner and William Randolph Hearst in the middle decades of that ill-fated newspaper's history. In my opinion, (supported by what reliable sources say) The Centurion is as notable as, or far more obviously notable by Wikipedia standards than any college campus publication you can possibly mention, both because of and despite its early association with James O'Keefe.