The Kids Korner is NOT a good example. DO A SEARCH. I emplored people to call my girlfriend, who at the time was the summer managing editor and now is a working press alumna. NOONE EVER CALLED, NOONE WROTE. I PM'd people, I begged them to write or call. I said I thought it was a great story and the Daily wanted to do an article on it. For one week, the last week of the summer paper, the Daily waited to hear something having no clue how to contact you guys. NO CALL!!!! One of you that I messaged knows her personally. So don't talk about them not covering Kid's Korner. The paper is not owned by the university. The editors, writers etc are NOT university employees. Pay attention, do some research, learn the basics of how journalists do their job and you will get much farther in life. Even RickV states that he is not trying to control content (BECAUSE HE CAN'T) but is displeased with the choice of the article. He states his reasoning and leaves it at that. If you TRY to tell the paper what to run, or if you tell them how to do their job, your letter will end up in the trash, no matter how good the rest of your points are. I am sorry that many of you think that the journalism world is out to get you. If this is truly the case, you have a long miserable life ahead of you. And as I have said before, if you want to live someplace where the govt controls the media, I hear Facist Italy was a nice place or maybe prewar Afganistan? Nazi Germany? South Africa? Columbia? Cuba? You get the idea? For the last two weeks all I hear about is how good a job the staff is doing all I hear about is that they are writing articles that you enjoy reading. Then a kid decides to write ONE article about a quarterback's perfomance against us and suddenly they are all back to moron status? Come on guys, I agree with Rick V's comments, and I agree with fact that there are other things that the writer could have written about. I did call and leave a message about it. I do call often and speak with the photo staff about things I saw (good and bad) in the paper. And I will continue to. Be insulted if you please, but I truly belive that 99% of you are disgruntled because you haven't a clue (I didn't call anyone clueless in life in general) about how to deal with the media. Its ok, its probably not your job. There are millons of people who do exactly that. They are called PR flaqs and many are trained by the NT journalism Dept. But I can tell you this......... Whatever good was done from RickV's letter was undone by the letters posted on this board. MeanGreenSig, I might be a recent graduate, but I am not young in my profession, I have more experience with papers than most any photographer who has grad'd NT in the last three years. I spent 3 years with the Dallas Morning News on the Metro and Photo desks, I interned at the Roanoke Times in Roanoke VA, I worked for a small paper in East Texas called the Marshall News Messenger as a chief photographer, and now I am on staff at The Times in Shreveport. I have won several awards and have been edited and taught by the best in the business (ie three time Pulitzer Prize winner William Snyder and builder of the DMN photo dept John Davidson) I have some clue about how the journalism world works and on top of that I personally know the kid who these people are tearing apart. He is a good kid and will make a great journalist. SilverEagle, I see the same things. And I am sorry that we have had to deal with them. I don't think its fair, but you will find that those jokes and prods come mostly from TV and Radio, a whole different form of media all together and a bunch of bastrads to boot! They play by different rules and I do not claim them as my brethern But the simple, hard to swallow fact of the matter is that NT (and much as I love em) has not accomplished the things that OU UT ATM ND and the other schools that are regularly on the front cover. When they do, I am sure that they will warrant that kind of coverage. They also don't have nearly the fan base. Seeya, Shane
