Praising With Faint Damning
“Annarborisoverrated.com continues to ride its snarky one-trick pony to hilarity,” writes the Daily’s Zack Denfeld. We’ll take that as a compliment of sorts…
“Annarborisoverrated.com continues to ride its snarky one-trick pony to hilarity,” writes the Daily’s Zack Denfeld. We’ll take that as a compliment of sorts…
Don’t.
posted by Elizabeth on September 23rd, 2005 at 2:02 pmTwo mentions in the Daily in one week? You’re on your way to the top of the fame ladder.
posted by Dave on September 23rd, 2005 at 3:01 pmGoogle News had a top-shelf link from another story that quoted the Daily on the Google book scanning/copyright infringment thing. That was mildly frightening, more so that any other writer would quote the Daily in sincerity about anything than it being a top link in the News section.
They did drop Arbor Update and the New West Side Association a few issues back though. In a halfway decent article about voting. Still, in the same issue they had a sex column about how guys and girls can’t be friends. At some point, I need to remember to bring my own reading material to class.
posted by Jen on September 23rd, 2005 at 7:06 pmThe Ann Arbor Paper also ran a sex column about how guys and girls can’t be friends. It’s enough to make me miss “Sex and the Diag” and the “Michigan hookup” columnist.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on September 23rd, 2005 at 7:30 pmUm, hilarity? What? Did he even read the site?
posted by Matt Hampel on September 23rd, 2005 at 10:32 pmI DO miss the “Sex and the Diag” columnist… I should really get back into my habit of getting the Daily from Strickland’s.
posted by Lazaro on September 24th, 2005 at 10:38 amZack’s the guy who was handing out soup on a street corner as art and inviting City Council members out on walking tours of Ann Arbor’s stencils…
posted by Murph on September 24th, 2005 at 12:03 pmthey’re kids, people. kids.
posted by g on September 25th, 2005 at 5:36 ambetter one trick than none.
posted by lima bean on September 25th, 2005 at 3:16 pmAw, how can you say that when students were responsible for the much beloved and sorely missed “Great Eats in the Ann Arbor Streets.” Marisa — I heard there’s going to be an H.P. Pickleshit’s opening any day now!!!
posted by Mike on September 25th, 2005 at 6:36 pmI wouldn’t take a compliment from someone who thinks the Michigan Daily is one of the best college papers in the country.
posted by HNG on September 26th, 2005 at 9:22 amGuys and girls can’t be friends? I beg to differ, since every woman I meet tells me she just wants to be friends. ‘Course, then I never hear from them again, so…
posted by Dave on September 26th, 2005 at 10:44 am“Annarborisoverrated.com continues to ride its snarky one-trick pony to hilarity,”-
Intended as a compliment. of sorts.
“I wouldn’t take a compliment from someone who thinks the Michigan Daily is one of the best college papers in the country.” HNG
Don’t get me wrong, the Michigan Daily is horrible, but so are most of the collge papers I have seen. I actually thought the Daily Orange at Syracuse University was a slightly better newspaper when I worked there, but only because they had a full page of student comics everyday which often bordered on insane.
The major point of the article is that local blogs put out much better content than newspapers in general, and college newspapers in particulalr, but I hate reading off a screen.
I can’t wait for the day when newspapers are a compilation of the best regional blog content.
posted by Zack on September 26th, 2005 at 11:17 pmThe daily paper is one of those things that MSU does so much better than UM.
posted by js on September 27th, 2005 at 3:05 pmBlogs seem better than daily papers to some people because they’re more progressive and hip and anti-establishment and all of that. I’d like to see a blogger put out a 20-page newspaper every day that accurately covers campus and the world without a liberal slant. Until then, newspapers will just have to put up with bloggers’ snide comments about front-page misspellings that they use as evidence to discredit a true news source.
posted by Concerned about blogs on November 9th, 2005 at 12:32 am