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department of newsprint-smudged fingers

Posted By josh On January 26, 2005 @ 9:42 pm In Uncategorized | Comments Disabled

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stranger: 27 january 2005 [1]

Originally uploaded by joshc [2].

In this, the latest installation of Local Newspaper Watch, we highlight two case studies in journalism excellence:
  1. We begin with the UW Daily which leads with this shocking headline, “Alternative sexuality in Greek life often kept in closet” [# [3]].
    Go figure.

  2. In the much anticipated follow-up to Stranger Sellout Watch, this week’s issue is dedicated to the narcissism of Seattle’s own Ben Exworthy [thestranger [4]]. By the close of the fundraiser, he’d spent $12,000 to buy all of the editorial content on the auction block. As a tribute to his eBay ambition, or perhaps as a way of giving the staff a little time off, the editors turned much of the paper over to him. I wonder if it feesl like that scene in Being John Malkovich when Malkovich goes through the little door on the 7 1/2 floor.
  3. There is no item three. We really don’t have that much time to read newspapers.


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[3] #: http://www.thedaily.washington.edu/index.lasso?-database=DailyWebSQL&-table=Articles&-response=newspage.lasso&-keyField=__Record_ID__&-keyValue=11641&-search

[4] thestranger: http://www.thestranger.com/2005-01-27/

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