On the brink of the heat

[merry_rogue]

Since the last post, a Holocaust denier/revisionist drove up from Mexico to come speak on campus and a woman committed suicide off one of the university's parking structures.

I also interviewed Senator Leland Yee regarding the senate bills he's proposed for the California State University systemOther than school and the DT, things continue to

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[karatestereo]

These days with an American studies degree you get more "credibility" (especially in most modern print journalism) in being able to complain about mainstream American society.

So that might come in useful.

;)

[merry_rogue]

Hahahaha! Good point.

[bla_girl]

Print journalism was so promising until the Internet came along.

[merry_rogue]

I figure so long as we write them fast enough, our stories are still translatable to the Web.

I hear our jobs are also getting outsourced to India. I can't, for the life of me, figure out how. Outsourcing is a bigger problem than illegal immigrants (they're ACTUALLY taking jobs people here are training for and not getting), but you know, we need India as an ally and all that. -_-

[bla_girl]

That's absolutely baffling! What would someone in India know about local issues? That's like telling an infertile woman to write about the joys of childbirth.

[merry_rogue]

Yeah, I thought I remembered hearing about it somehwere: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/14/outsourcing-journalism/

But I'm pretty sure I remember hearing about there being more cases than just the hiring of two reporters.

[hanzo187]

Wait, a politician who's actually AGAINST raises? Hmm...I like this guy.

[merry_rogue]

I know right? And the man passed all sorts of legislation to protect student journalists and their advisers from the administration of their schools.

I wish he wasn't in San Francisco, because I'd totally give him a hug.