NOTHING WORTH READING
My friends and I were hanging out the other night and one of them brought up your newspaper. It seems that no one in my group is a regular reader. You always report on some boring city growth problem, the Eugene Police Department or run some rant from some regular letter writer that uses your newspaper like it’s their personal platform to pontificate. Nothing of interest for us 20-somethings.
Well, last week Obama became president. Everyone I know was excited and everybody was talking about Obama. I saw your Jan. 15 issue and thought, “Right on, something interesting to read.” I picked it up.
I shouldn’t have been surprised when I opened to the story and there it was: Rants from regular letter writers pontificating freely. Nothing about the election from a news perspective. Nothing about our first African-American president. Nothing about the inauguration. Nothing newsworthy.
You figured out the formula. You can wrap dog poop in Obama, and somebody will pick it up. Consider these six Lane students duped.
Jennifer Crowley, Eugene
Jennifer is right. What with the dearth of media in this country, one had look far and wide to find any coverage of Obama at all, whereas I can't take a shower without tripping over yet another boring story about land-use planning in Eugene. In fact, until I read Jennifer's letter, I was not even aware that Obama was African-American or that he was set to be "inaugurated" (I'm still sure what that means!). Along with Jennifer and her friends, I will not be fooled next time!
2 comments:
Shorter Jennifer Crowley: Since it's not about Obama, I can ignore the news. Just like I did during the entire Bush administration. And why do people keep calling me a "kool-aid drinker?"
Seriously. I genuinely like Obama, but these peeps scare me.
And if I'm not mistaken, should we be shocked that the Jan. 15 EW carried nothing on the inauguration, seeing as how said event was five days in the future at this point?
yes.
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