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We can’t wait for the fallout from the Daily’s annual “joke” issue, especially “Three ’snobs’ slain outside Rick’s,” which explores the U’s Midwest/East Coast rift in a sensitive and thoughtful way.
We can’t wait for the fallout from the Daily’s annual “joke” issue, especially “Three ’snobs’ slain outside Rick’s,” which explores the U’s Midwest/East Coast rift in a sensitive and thoughtful way.
Wow.
posted by Larry Kestenbaum on January 30th, 2004 at 2:12 pm eJewish American Cafe’ indeed.
posted by Leighton on January 30th, 2004 at 6:16 pm eI don’t know what they’re teaching in journalism school these days, but I’ll take AAIO and Goodspeed any day over these clowns.
posted by Edward Vielmetti on January 30th, 2004 at 9:44 pm eI’ll second all of this. The lines of taste and not-funny can be crossed separately, but never together.
posted by Nick on January 30th, 2004 at 10:14 pm eTime warp. I’m astonished that “‘JAP’ vs. Midwesterner” is still, apparently, as salient a campus meme as it was in my late-80s stint at U-M.
posted by Laura on January 31st, 2004 at 12:16 am eThe Daily is not a humour magazine… with good reason.
posted by srah on January 31st, 2004 at 12:36 am eAs a journalism school dropout, I can confirm that this is what they’re teaching in J-school.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on January 31st, 2004 at 2:26 am eI knew Gil Renberg, who was a higher-up at the daily in the early 90s (I think he was the Editor-in-Chief his senior year, but maybe he was news editor; I forget), and my best friend wrote for the Daily back in those days. And it was considered a big deal to be on the staff — and my friend now writes for a national news outlet. They won a bunch of jouralism prizes, the editors, the reporters, the columnists.
It wasn’t a great paper in the national sense; it was a pretty darn good college paper, though. The coverage of local UM and AA news was good, and the editorials were of unusually high quality for a college paper, and minimally, the editors insisted on proper grammar usage. It used to certainly be much better than the AA News.
I didn’t notice the change because I didn’t really read it in grad school, but when did the Fox News model take over there? Since discovering AAIO, I’ve been checking it out occasionally, and it’s been so awful that I cringe. At first I thought it was a contrast effect between where I am now and UM, but I don’t think it is. I think the paper really changed. What the hell happened? Does anyone else remember when the Daily was decent? Or is this some serious memory distortion?
posted by Anna on January 31st, 2004 at 11:35 am eGoogle didn’t say you were unemployed. Simply employed part time.
Google didn’t say you were gay.
Having a red-haired girlfriend refutes that.
And Google says you prefer two wheels to four.
posted by ilya on January 31st, 2004 at 4:04 pm eThat’s disconcertingly…specific.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on February 1st, 2004 at 12:53 am eRight. Isn’t that supposed to go five syllables, then seven, then five?
posted by Nick on February 1st, 2004 at 9:43 am eI guess you’ll have to update your “About This Site” blurb as regards your purported anonymity.
posted by ilya on February 1st, 2004 at 3:28 pm eGoogle knows…
Deepthroat? Is that you?
posted by Anna on February 1st, 2004 at 8:48 pm eno
posted by ilya on February 2nd, 2004 at 8:58 am ewell, first I just wanted to give my 2 cents worth on the Daily, now I’m confused about google and AAIO.
Ok back to the Daily
I deal with working daily staff on a regular bases, and wow, they are in bad shape. I know of many things they have done over the past few years that range from just plain stupid to really disgusting. From what I can tell the Adults that are suppose to supervise the paper don’t give a $hit what happens. Also, there is no doubt in my mind that its got some racism problems (ironically, not against jews at all).
The paper has a number of Jewish folk on staff, at times suprisingly high. They may have felt that gave them the ‘OK’ to kill fictional jewish girls in article.
In one of the last ‘joke’ issues they did, they put in one of the mostly subtle pieces of racism I’ve ever seen, one that almost no one got, but a very few.
I know that actions there over the past few years have let to investigation to see if charges of racism would be brought up (by a non-profit group), though that my still be in the works, law stuff takes forever, usually justice is served as a cold dish
There are some good folks at the daily, there are some bad, but as a paper, the damn thing is a joke!
posted by Just A Voice on February 4th, 2004 at 9:50 am eJAV – In what capacity do you work with the Daily? I find this whole thing totally fascinating. Why, do you think, aren’t the faculty members who are supposed to be mentoring them paying any attention? And who are those folks?
posted by Anna on February 4th, 2004 at 12:36 pm ethe whole “humor” issue was filled with crap, crap, crappy writing and other problematic “stories” like the 3 snobs. i honestly was shocked, as were most of my cohorts.
posted by april on February 4th, 2004 at 3:02 pm e