Calstuff
Don't mess this up!
-Kevin Deenihan,
Emeritus


Home
Archive
Extended

Help CalStuff!

Disclaimer: Calstuff and/or the opinions expressed are not affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley.
Recent Guest Posts
Tenants' Rights Week
by Jason Overman
Search

Powered by:
Contact
Email Calstuff
FaceBook CalStuff!
Allen L.
 About
 E-mail
 IM
Andy R.
 About
 E-mail
 IM
Ben N.
 About
 E-mail
 IM
Cooper N.

 About
 E-mail
 IM
Syndication
Site Feed (ATOM)
Comments Feed
Add to LJ Friends

Subscribe in NewsGator Online
Subscribe with Bloglines
Berkeley Blogs
CalJunket
With humor.
Cal Patriot Blog
Conservative Blog
UC Berkeley Livejournal
Discussion Forum
California Patriot Watch
Self Explanatory
Brad DeLong
Econ Prof
The Bird House
Cal Prof on everything
Cal Politik
Rants & Raves
Beetle Beat
Full Time Whiner
"Frat" Life
Cal "Frat" Boy
Cal Tzedek
Jewish Students Blog
Personal as Public
Soft Boiled Life
Hilariously Un-PC.
Cal Alumni/ Squelch Blogs
Kedstuff
Remember him?
I Fought the Law
Optimus Primed
Zembla
With Cuteness
Ne Quid Nimis
With Photography
Wednesday, March 27, 2002
# posted by Kevin @ 11:03 PM

Nolo Free beats me once again to commentary, making all the right points about this mostly-pointless article rehashing the Patriot scandal in light of the recent round of faux-Anthrax mailings.

One thing I can add: the writer claims that X will serve as the new counterbalance to the Patriot, which is silly in many ways. First off, X doesn't care about the Patriot. It was started to counterbalance the 'Shady Cal.' Most minority groups roll their eyes at the Patriot, knowing that attacking them is an automatic loss, but hate the Daily Cal with a passion. Reason: since the DC is made up of mostly upper-middle class white collar kids, they have pretty much 0 ties to the minority community. Not to mention the innate hostility between the First Amendment loving Press and the 'No Hate Speech' loving X crowd.

Second reason: the writer makes it seem like X sprang from the cooperation of ethnic groups to do battle with the evil Patriot. But X is an amalgation of four existing ethnic publications, not groups. Same writers, same layout people, etc. Certainly the resource pooling helps outreach and distribution, but there's a big difference between creating the single 'voice for the marginalized' and merely adding a fifth onto four existing voices.
Email This Post!

Home
Advertisements
Advertising Policy

Place an Ad on Calstuff



Get Firefox!

Cal Magazines
Heuristic Squelch
Humor Mag
California Patriot
Conservative
Hardboiled
Lefty/Asian mag.
Bezerk
Comics Mag
In Passing
Bloggish
Cal Newsites
Daily Californian
Student Newspaper
Daily Planet
City Newspaper
Berkeleyan
Faculty/Staff news
Newscenter
Administrative Announcements
Indybay
Hard Left News
East Bay Express
Alt-weekly
Cal Other
UC Rally Committee
Stand nineteen feet tall! Be united! Be tough! Be proud!
CyberBears
GO BEARS!
ASUC
Cal's Student government
One
Cal's Student Portal
Berkeley Bookswap
Good Deals

Weblog Commenting and Trackback by HaloScan.com