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I see that the Lit Sup is a bit thin this semester. Good. It means that your practice of treating the contributing authors like garbage is finally coming back to bite you in the ass. Fuchs was right. The Press reads like the editors and authors are getting bored and starting to treat the publication like another thing to stick on the resume, a way to keep their hand in while they’re getting their journalism degrees.
You are only a couple of degrees away from being the Statesman.
You do realize that the whole point of writing for a campus publication IS to pad your resume, right? Why else would an on-campus internship be a mandatory part of the j-school curriculum?
Writers want to be taken seriously when they get big. Doesn’t the fact that the Press is losing contributing and staff writers to the other pubs tell you that?
So what you’re saying is that as the Press gets less ridiculous, they lose staff? That actually makes a lot of sense. Since the Press still has its reputation, but isn’t as amusing to work for, the writers figure its more time-effective to write for someone who is both serious and actually will look good later on. Thanks for that, it puts the whole thing in perspective.
I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic or not, but yes, that is what I’m trying to say.
Najib seems to be putting in a lot of work into getting his publication to be a reputable news source, but a lot of the old staff are deriding him for it (for example, the author of this asinine article), and the new staff are just leaving for pubs like the Indie and the Statesman, both of which already have pretty longstanding reputations for legitimacy and professionalism. I’d say it’ll be a while until the Press gets its shit together and does away with this frat-boy mentality it’s been associated with by readers and j-school students.
There’s a time and place for that, and it shouldn’t pervade into how a publication covers issues. It’s to the point that most writers/editorial staff at the Indie and the Statesman haven’t even considered the Press to be competition until recently.
I’ll give Najib credit and my respect for trying to remedy that problem.