Sep. 29 - My School's Newspaper Blows Ass


It's no secret that Trinity's school paper, The Trinitonian, has always sucked. But this year, it's gotten even suckier.

Its layout is an eyesore, its opinion writers are talentless narcissistic hacks, its editors couldn't find a sentence fragment if it were rolled into a bullet and shot into their eye, and its reporters make numerous errors, from simple name misspellings to to a comprehensive misunderstanding of what it means to be a journalist, writer, English speaker, or well-rounded human being.

This week's issue put me over the edge. Not only did they interview me for Bad Movie Club and not print it, but they miscaptioned a picture I was in, insulting me and the person they cropped out.

Rather than firebomb their office, which would waste valuable fuels and destroy University property, I spent my Friday afternoon making a satire of the paper. Hopefully you'll get a laugh, as I'm sure this kind of journalism is indicative of numerous college campuses (except yours, Emily. You da bomb).

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Posted by Nick Nobel

 

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This is great! I like the subtle grammatical and punctuational errors. My favorite line is "I thought second of it." I cried. I also appreciated the continuity in your characterization of the staff writers, especially Bill Lummox.

Hey, in your critique of the Trinitonian, you didn't point out that a tenured faculty member wrote in to tell the staff how badly they suck.

Posted by Valeah | September 29, 2007 05:12 PM


I'll get to that in next month's issue.

Posted by Nick | September 29, 2007 05:15 PM


That was thoroughly enjoyable satire, my good fellow. So, do you plan to distribute your handiwork around campus? I think you should.

Posted by Keegan | September 30, 2007 12:00 AM


I've wanted to write something like this whenever I quit. Our readers actually get annoyed that we don't publish more coverage of events like the Engineering Department's Welcome Back BBQ Bash. Covering something like why the state took away $16 million from UTA's budget during the last legislative session is booo-ring.

Posted by Emily | October 1, 2007 01:21 AM


WHAT A SCOOP!!!!

Posted by Nick | October 1, 2007 12:04 PM


That unfortunately reads waaaaaay too much like the Case undergraduate newspaper, The Observer.

Posted by Xanthe | October 2, 2007 10:06 PM


 

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