My editorial for the election issue of my school newspaper was just axed.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Check out this, from the e-mail I got from one of the editors:

"{Newspaper faculty advisor}, as he always does, ran over the drafts of the paper for this edition. He feels that your editorial, although it makes several good points, rambles a bit and brings up some issues that may not be appropriate in a school setting."

I wonder which issues were not appropriate? My point-blank mocking of the warhawks? My mini-tirade against homophobes?

:rofl:

Ahhh, public schools. I was asked to contribute an editorial from a progressive viewpoint, to counter the ones being written in support of conservatism. Apparently progressivism can be a bit overdone.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. I think you should post it here so at least smart people can enjoy it.

And then remember that public schools are full of jackasses, morans, fascists, uncreative pieces of shit, and people who are too goddamned dumb to think for themselves and take some solace in the fact that your editorial was too advanced for them, and know that you are, indeed, better than they.

:yourock:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

2. It WAS pretty vitrolic, I'll admit.

Maybe a bit overdone. But could he not have just asked to have a few sentences cut? I might have submitted. I guess the whole thing was in need of a keelhauling, from his perspective.

:evilgrin:

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. So post it!

And yes, any ethical editor, especially in a school setting, would actually tell you what was specifically wrong and give you a chance to correct it.

Especially if said person is allowing conservative lies to be printed. Of course, I'm just assuming they're lies since they're conservative.

I get so pissed off at public schools because they tend, far more often than not, to hold to a rather freeper way of doing stuff. Pure bullshit. But I think that's mostly because so many of the jackasses that go into school administration have a lot of issues about their masculinity, their failure to be smart enough to do anything else, their failure as the sports heroes they were told they would be, and so on.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

7. It's posted in another thread.

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Contact the Student Press Law Center

http://www.splc.org/

This kind of shit pisses me the FUCK off! School principals are NOT qualified to be editors.

The laws on this have got to change. :grr:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

4. He's not a principal, just an old English teacher.

I'll post the editorial here in another thread, and let you all decide how rambly and vitrolic and generally dumb it is. (I actually thought it was a pretty weak editorial.) :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Yeah, I just came back to edit my post

because I realized I'd misread. :blush:

Normally this kind of shit happens with principals. Either your advisor's an asshole or you really went to town with that editorial.

(Was it an editorial or a column?)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. Editorial.

The advisor's a pretty fair guy. I'm not too surprised it got axed. I certainly don't feel like my First Amendment rights have been abridged.

That said, I think it's damned funny I wrote something in enough of a rage to get it axed.

:evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. I just read it

It's a column.

And, yeah — it reads like a rant.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. Whoooops.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Whole thing is fall-down funny for me right now, and I'm not even sure why. :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. A column is your opinion, or your take on something in the news

An editorial is the staff's opinion. Editorials are almost always unsigned and use "the editorial 'we'."

[WritingIsMyReligion]

12. Ah, I see.

We're pretty lax about that at my edumacation center, I guess. ;)

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Well, you've got an English teacher advising the paper

Which many schools do.

That's wrong. English and journalism have nothing to do with each other. :crazy: