Comments on: Profane College Newspaper Hides Behind Free Speech http://www.bloggernews.net/110390 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:24:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Ron Franscell http://www.bloggernews.net/110390#comment-93441 Ron Franscell Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:30:27 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/110390#comment-93441 Would I hire him in my newsroom? Not a chance. Not because he's an inarticulate freak. Not because his vocabulary seems woefully limited. Not because he's apparently incapable of original thought. Not because he's a heckler who prefers to stand at the back of the crowd and shout profanity instead of leading a crowd to a positive conclusion. Not because he's heckling Bush (I'd feel the same if it was Hillary or Obama.) Not because he showed disrespect for his publisher and his community. Not because he can't seem to surrender his knee-jerk politics to the greater purpose of writing wisdom. But because he seems to have no ability to step back from his narcissism and say something that's worth the price of ink and dead trees. This masturbatory little punk put himself first, not his readers. I won't consume any more of your bandwidth. I blogged more fully about this at <a href="http://underthenews.blogspot.com/2007/09/taser-this.html" rel="nofollow">Under The News</a> Would I hire him in my newsroom? Not a chance. Not because he’s an inarticulate freak. Not because his vocabulary seems woefully limited. Not because he’s apparently incapable of original thought. Not because he’s a heckler who prefers to stand at the back of the crowd and shout profanity instead of leading a crowd to a positive conclusion. Not because he’s heckling Bush (I’d feel the same if it was Hillary or Obama.) Not because he showed disrespect for his publisher and his community. Not because he can’t seem to surrender his knee-jerk politics to the greater purpose of writing wisdom.

But because he seems to have no ability to step back from his narcissism and say something that’s worth the price of ink and dead trees. This masturbatory little punk put himself first, not his readers.

I won’t consume any more of your bandwidth. I blogged more fully about this at Under The News

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