April 2010
11 posts
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The nerve!
High school all-star teams bring out the best in everyone involved. A real feel-good feature in the paper, don’t you think?
Congrats to all the athletes for their very successful seasons. Special kudos to all those HIGH SCHOOL NAME athletes mentioned.
I can’t believe the XXXXXXX had the nerve to leave the rest of the HIGH SCHOOL NAME kids off the honor roll, what a farce.
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That's an NCAA sport?
Not sure what “gynmastics” is, but it sounds kinda dirty.
Boy’s do have Gynmastics and it is an NCAA sport. Too bad the NEWSPAPER refuses to cover the fact that we have over 10 Nationally ranked Boys headed to Indy in May to represent the State of XXXXX. And these kids have muscles and are in the weight room as much as the football players. And they are friends kids and NOT...
In a perfect world, there would be fishing reports...
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Cirque de risque
Family-friendly entertainment? Apparently not, according to this enraged reader/circus-goer.
This is our third year of going to the circus and each year we get reserved seating. This year, I debated going due to the poor performance last year. What has happened to the circus? My family went to the 4:30 p.m. show on March 26. First thing my 3-year-old asked is, where are all the animals? What...
No 'bagging zone
The following memo was sent from a managing editor to the entire newsroom, no doubt the result of some serious (and likely justified) paper hating. Mark this down in the category of “things a managing editor never imagined he would have to tell his staff.”
To: NEWSROOM
Subject: Please do not use this term
Please avoid “tea baggers” in print and online, in stories and in places like...
Let's play pretend
You’ll pretend to be the “journalist,” she’ll pretend to be the “reader.” Isn’t this fun?!
If your columns are considered humorous, I must have missed something. I managed to get through the first one, but the second one was just not worth the read. You sound more angry (and sophomoric) than anyone I’ve read in a long time.
I’m sorry my...
The risk of rounding up
While calling to get some information on a sentencing correction, the woman’s boyfriend answered the phone and chastised me for “sensationalizing” another sentence from the same day. Here’s what I know: 1) The judge said a gentleman’s “staggering previous record” took up 6 1/2 pages of the pre-sentence investigation. 2) I wrote “nearly...
You are killing the newspaper. You bastards! Part...
You are killing the newspaper. You bastards! Part...
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Letter to a 'loveless leftist'
An impassioned reader makes use of all the formatting options her email account offers and an arsenal of 50-cent words to get her point across. Her point? Read on to find out.
(Spoiler alert! She is not pleased with the journalist in question.)
COLUMNIST: I find your writing to be cruel, illiterate and the pot-calling-the-kettle-black in issues of prejudice & bigotry. Perhaps...
Now THAT'S how you 'resign'
Prepare yourselves for what could be the best resignation letter of all time. Of all time. Aaaaaand go:
I know this is a horribly shitty thing to do so near a deadline, and will result in a lot of work and stress for one or more person, but I have to “resign” as stringer. I realized (only today) that I am both unqualified for and wholly uninterested in prep sport coverage. Also, though...