Collegian annoyances

[sigma7]

I'm deeply peeved at the online Collegian. Not just because they seem to forget to upload their photos with regularity, but because they have no sense of news judgement when selecting lead stories that make it to the index page. Meaningless drivel with a photo somehow trumps the fact that the Union's south parking lot is being turned into a parking garage with parking permits doubling in price as a result. And today your lead stories are either "Students more at risk for identity theft because of ID cards" (file under "D" for "duh") and "Suspect arrested for theft, drug possession". On the printed page, though, above the fold on the right, you'll see "Serial rapist targets local women", and any person who doesn't think that deserves play on the front page of your online edition needs to be beaten with a large, blunt object, like a piano. Rrrrgh.

Comments

[rewil.livejournal.com]

Oh, the pain.



... They're actually going through with a parking garage? Huh.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Yes, because they hate me. But because there's no pretty-pretty graphic with it, it gets dumped to the middle of the archive index. You and I aren't strangers to the idea of putting graphic play high in the index, but you'd think something of this nature would trump "Cheap haircuts" and "Let's help Katrina victims" in the grand scheme of things.