Did the thread about the Reveille hack job get deleted?

was that :rofl: in fashion?

 

how do you know the article's not legit? maybe she has a solid source, no one knows. just sayin'. i doubt that it is true, but i'm willing to bet that there is something there. not sure that the editor would print an article that didn't have at least some substance.

 

This even landed on EPSN insider.com's rumors page. Not a good look for the University to have student employees trying to sandbag us in the paper.

The Reveille editorial board has never ever done its job before, so I wouldn't expect them to start now, but I really think that there should be some sort of disciplinary action taken forth. Maybe pull some funding if the paper is gonna be run that irresponsibly?

 

i don't know how much funding the paper gets from the university. they charge their own rates for advertising, so i would think that there would be VERY little university funding for student publications.

 

They actually get a lot. Each student has a to pay a fee for student media. Essentially, 60-75 % of it goes to the Reveille, and the rest of student media gets the rest (TigerTV, Legacy, etc). There was a big campaign in 06/07 to raise the fee, and it got turned down by the students.

I used to work down the hall at TigerTV, and there was a stark contrast in the equipment and computers the Reveille used vs. that in the offices for Legacy, TigerTV and the other departments. When you walked past the Reveille "news room" you would see 8-10 brand new Apple computers with 25 inch monitors. TigerTV's editing bay, meanwhile, had a bunch of POS Dell's from 2002 that would lock up and froze on you any 5 seconds, and were incapable of running more than 2 programs at a time.

It is such a terrible newspaper though, off base opinion columns and incorrect "news" being printed on page one (Scores incorrect, misspelled headlines, etc). Handfuls of typos and grammatical errors each day, and leads that were seemingly written by manatees.

There are plenty of talented and driven individuals who work in student media. As a whole though, the paper is sub-standard, especially when you consider the proportion of funding it gets alloted.

Even though the Manship school is not directly involved with student media, we should still expect more from the student paper with such a great journalism program at LSU.

 

i'd still be willing to bet that the paper still makes more money from advertisements -- that's how it was at nicholls when i worked there. i feel that the quality of writing from the reveille is pathetic considering how well LSU does in every other venue affiliated with the school. i know that there has to better writers at LSU than the writers that are currently employed... maybe they should promote some of the reporters?

i was always taught by my professors at nicholls to report the news rather than create it. they also told me that if we (the journalism students) wanted fame, or recognition, we should consider a different profession. :lol:
in fact, i agree with that. i was lured into journalism by the "reporting" displayed by the media today only to learn that TRUE journalism is NOTHING like that.... or at least its not supposed to be.

whenever i read the reveille (which isn't often) it seems like most writers are trying to push some kind of agenda, or at least push some sort of cliche across to the readers...

the people at nicholls used to complain that our papers were boring when i was there... but we reported the boring news that was pertinent to the university... now they have all kind of gossip-type columns and other BS. it's just the times, i guess. newspapers just aren't a big business anymore. :redface:

it's why you see guys like guilbeau and finebaum doing the things that they do.

 

That's a good point I don't know that it isn't legit. However I was biasing that on what was the prevailing thoughts on this thread. That being said I hope it is completely false. We don't need this right now.

 

i agree with that. i do hope it's false. but i'm thinking that there may be something to the story.

 

If it was true, why is the Reveille not standing behind it? Why has no other media source even mentioned it? Why has CNNSI's rumor site not even bothered to link it?

 

like was stated earlier, LSU's Athletic Dept's PR is probably a helluva lot more powerful than the Reveille. if they want an article removed, they have the money and power to get it done. papers go to press early, which is why the article was still in the print version.