My school newspaper publishes a new issue every month. It's filled with the usual things such as the new principal and other things that are happening in high school. However, my school paper has the very last page dedicated to two articles based on sillyness really. In the past it was filled with satirical pieces, horoscopes that my friend (who has since graduated) made, and the "heap of the month" which is an article about a car in the student parking lot that has definitely seen better days.
Unfortunately, all of those have been scrapped from the newspaper. Due to lack of effort, laziness, or the students that originally did those pieces have now since graduated. The horoscopes and heap of the month were brought back temporarely in the beginning of this year, but they have mysteriously disappeared. Although, the horoscopes this year were more "what the hell?" than the witty ones my friend wrote. And I assume the newspaper ran out of crappy cars to write about.
So what floods the last page of the newspaper. The first article is a joke piece about a canned food drive that failed miserably. The second is a piece that is pretty much a blog about a female student's day. Nothing exciting or anything to write about, and I must add that it would be classified as a very BAD blog entry. Filled with things that made me lose a few brain cells. Such as this little excerpt:
"So I get to school and pray to God that I don't slip and fall because the traction on my Ugg boots is just completely gone. I started the schol Ugg boot trend in Central New York when I brought them back from New York City in April 2003."
And believe me, it just gets worse and worse as you continue reading. It's filled with the word "like" a lot. I realize this page of the newspaper is solely for sillyness, but this is just pure stupidity! What were the editors thinking when they printed this?! This article if you can call it that was nothing more than to take up space, and they couldn't find something more worthy (and less stupid) to print?
I realize this is just a high school newspaper and not the New York Times, but give me something worthy to read than a boring blog entry about someone's day!
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At least you have a school newspaper that has an option to print what they want, and prints on a somewhat regular basis. My "school newspaper" prints three times a year and my staff advisor basically tells us what to write, rather than just what topics we might consider discussing. It's very Stalin-istic.
So why don't you join the newspaper staff? Since you seem to know what people want in a newspaper and are associated with witty friends, why don't you help to make a newspaper that would meet your standards of satisfaction? If you care so much about how the newspaper turns out, wouldn't you be proud to say you have helped create it? I guess this goes along with the saying that you can't complain about who got elected unless you had your say by voting. If you think it could be better, make it better.