05-07-2004, 08:04 PM
so who should be made a hero? is the media supposed to do polls to find out whether or not people agree? the only thing this writer is going on is the fact that tillman had a beefy face. lets accuse this kid of being a terrorist because he has a middle eastern face, and see the shit fly there.
working on my school newspaper i would see the advice our advisor would write back to the editors to fix up the main news stories. he's a journalist who has his own syndicated column. the advice he gave to the editors was the same stuff you see in news articles and think "what the fuck?"
"where's the angle in this" ... or "where's the controversy thats going to get the readers interested"
at the end of the year he even told us that our stories were boring and we have to lighten up. we dont' have a journalism school here so none of us are going to be writers. we could care less about giving a certain angle. but this is how they are taught to think.
if this kid ever becomes a writer himself he's going to be doing the same shit. he'll write his op-eds claiming this or that, and people aren't going to always agree. he'll probably jump on some bandwagons himself because he agrees with them, only to reach the same controversy this story is getting now. it happens, boo hoo
working on my school newspaper i would see the advice our advisor would write back to the editors to fix up the main news stories. he's a journalist who has his own syndicated column. the advice he gave to the editors was the same stuff you see in news articles and think "what the fuck?"
"where's the angle in this" ... or "where's the controversy thats going to get the readers interested"
at the end of the year he even told us that our stories were boring and we have to lighten up. we dont' have a journalism school here so none of us are going to be writers. we could care less about giving a certain angle. but this is how they are taught to think.
if this kid ever becomes a writer himself he's going to be doing the same shit. he'll write his op-eds claiming this or that, and people aren't going to always agree. he'll probably jump on some bandwagons himself because he agrees with them, only to reach the same controversy this story is getting now. it happens, boo hoo