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A former student newspaper editor laments the state of journalism at his alma mater.
Bartell, a journalism major who was promoted to editor-in-chief in January 2005 after one year as Campus Affairs editor, now works as as a part-time receptionist for a Manhattan public-relations firm. Bartell had a distinguished career at the Free Press, breaking the news of the appointment of a new English Department chairman in 2004, and writing a three-part series on the revamped trash-can design in the student union.
Believing that his tenure “set a strong, rigorous example for quality news writing,” Bartell, who often travels back to Boston to attend college parties thrown by members of his old newspaper, is saddened that none of the staff has followed his example. Everything in the paper, he claims, from the coverage of the school’s annual Activities Expo to the campus radio station-sponsored date auction, has been “complete bullshit.”
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February 23rd, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Ummm, this is from The Onion, a noted full-time prank site, right?
February 23rd, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Yeeessss? Aaaand?
February 23rd, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Just wondering… it is, then, the faux decline of journalism, n’est pa?
February 23rd, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Russell Russell Russell…. The joke is in linking to it with a straight face and you being surprised when you open it… It’s the haha of how close good media satire is to real media. I see I’ve touched a nerve…. :)
February 25th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
The problem these days is that no one can completely tell satire from straight media anymore. As Canadians, many of us are living north of a country where a significant number of people think that one president who had sex with an intern is guilty of high treason, while another president who happens to be a draft-dodger can wage a fake war and kill tens of thousands of people and torture innocent people with impunity and yet still be considered second in moral integrity only to Jesus Christ. After the past six years, an article parodying the self-righteousness of a journalism student can pretty well be taken either way and it still seems legitimate.
One more example link, and then I’ll end the threadjack:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784