Getting it wrong
In the absence of our fine editor, who is taking a well-deserved break from having to deal with newspaper issues, myself and Emma the web editor have been dealing with the huge amount of feedback we’ve had on the last edition. I suppose it’s a little disappointing in a way that most of it has to do with two minor articles that were buried in the news section. Yes, we got it, or at least some of it wrong, and that was pretty galling for everyone concerned… especially me, since I can think of a hundred ways I’d rather have been spending my time than getting involved in a collosal bunfight not of my own making — and one over Club D, of all things.
As has been pointed out, we try pretty hard to cover campus events, particularly Battle of the Bands, and so the suggestion that we’re out to wreck reputations is fairly silly. In general, I find it odd that people assume anyone involved in the campus media is by definition a callous bastard. I’m generally pretty bad at vendettas: I’d feel too guilty if I tried to sustain one for longer than a matter of hours. Besides, more often than not I’ll forget who I hold them against, and end up being nice to people by accident. Everyone else who works on Nouse — with the possible exception of our beloved gonzo attack-dog Mr. Merrill, who holds his vendettas behind his back like poison-tipped daggers — has always seemed to me to be similarly inclined.
After all, things get printed by newspapers because they are newsworthy, and sometimes things that seem newsworthy when you’re rushing to finish an edition turn out later to be dead wrong. We apologise, we move on, hopefully you move on too? Lovely.
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