How negative do our anti-NYU editorials (you know, all of them) have to be? According to one Melocoton, much more negative:
You announce that you “believe” Beckman when he tells you NYU did nothing wrong in dealing secretly with Citibank, but you still kinda think maybe there should perhaps be an investigation (which won’t happen, by the way, unless NYU is absolutely forced to do it by its own students)?
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But someone said this:
Is there some kind of smug-cynicism exam for WSN columnists these days?
Yeah, there totally is. But also, how does that make WSN different from any other newspaper? Isn’t the default setting for all columnists everywhere smug and cynical? Especially for our age group? If it’s not, fill me in.
Anyway, now I’ve posted three this week, which is how many we’re required to do.
I mean, I don’t know anything about technology. I exist in this bizarre state where I am semi-competent with some aspects of modern life (some HTML, know how to operate Windows without crying and sending Steve Jobs $$$ to bail me out of my uninformed woe) but sadly unable to understand many, many concepts. Like how do you force quit on a Mac? Someone please tell me this, because we have these awful Apples at the WSN office and I wish I knew how to force-quit them.
Anyway, I’m here to talk about this week’s Hardwired. Functionally Obsolete. Buchanathon. Whatever you want to call it. Because as of right now it’s got seven whole comments so it probably deserves a little attention.
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New York Times coverage of Chicago is always so funny. I mean sad. Sad, because they tend to approach Chicago with this sort of patronizing “golly, these Midwesterners done something to get written about” outlook. This week, the El is crappy. You’re not like me, so you probably didn’t get the implied conclusion, which is that New York = AWESOMEZ0RS and Chicago = shitty.
Click to read my delicious defense of the Chicago Transit Authority:
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I was meaning to put this up Monday, in conjunction with the most benign thing I have ever written; it’s an example of a line on the ground.
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People really, really, really hate me. You’d think that a column on language, and one on the phrase “on line” specifically, wouldn’t bother anyone too much. “Don’t capitalize non-proper nouns,” I’m saying. Since when is this controversial?
Click to be taken to a faraway land of magic adverbs:
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Okay, I’m trying to find something to blog about, and this is what I’ve got for you: Time Out Chicago’s winning “dressed-up” (whatever) burger is the one at Sweets and Savories, which is totally five blocks from my house. It’s kind of illegal because it’s got foie gras on it, which makes it extra delicious.
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In the past day or so, both Michael Devlin and I have sarcastically referred to John Beckman, university spokesman to the stars, as “WSN’s good friend.” Are Mike and I the same person? You’ll have to wait until sweeps to discover the truth about that on an exciting two-part episode of THE WSN.
Yeah, so, the editorial board — which I happen to run — is holding a contest. Is there anyone reading this thing who isn’t already at WSN?
Actually, forget it. I don’t want to be cute. Just enter, and you might win lunch with the opinion columnist of your choice and a spot on the editorial board. The deadline is March 9.
Gay (and, I assume, sodomy-loathing and marriage-disinterested) Republican Dorian Davis — there he is in that picture, by the way — wrote WSN in a letter today:
The coverage of the “Find the Illegal Immigrant” event in the WSN this past Wednesday was unfair to the College Republicans.
I really don’t want to blog about this immigration thing; I have surprisingly little to say about it. But so shall it be written by Devchanan, so shall it be done.
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