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13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Rutgers Student Threat... · 1 reply · +6 points

you didn't click reply, n00b.

13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Rutgers Student Threat... · 0 replies · +5 points

Indy, you are as eloquent as a typical laundromat proprietor.

13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Rutgers Student Threat... · 2 replies · +6 points

Indy, you probably have great taste in music, but your sense of humor needs work.

I hate news construction -- and this little gem falls into that category. The article is a punch thrown blindly at someone who was poking fun. This kid wrote a status, it was supposed to be lolhilariouslol, but instead it was purposelly misconstrued as threatening. Our willingness to acknowledge this status as part of a real anti-Semitic rally trivializes the issues our student body is supposed to be concerned with. This is a side-show -- an elephant man, a fire-breathing woman, Snookie.

Aaron Marcus and the author above fuel a fire based on a tit-for-tat game between student organizations. Fundraising and writing articles in the paper are great, but until these organizations step up and engage each other constructively in a more open forum (i.e. not a one-sided rebuttal to a one-sided event), this debate will continue on its current degenerative path.

Check.

13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Rutgers Student Threat... · 4 replies · +4 points

I think he was commenting on the need to eradicate poor grammar. Aaron Marcus writes for a paper funded, often mistakenly, by students who cannot afford the time-consuming errand of demanding a refund for their subscription to the targum. This mechamism keeps in place a collection of writers, some good, some bad. Aaron falls into the latter category.

If we had a purely capitalist newspaper market at Rutgers, with many competitors, lower barriers to entry, and no exit penalty for consumers wishing to exit (i.e. time spent filling out and submitting refund forms), this problem wouldn't exist. But, alas, this is not the case. I, and the the rest of the student body, are subjected to Aaron Marcus's poor grammar, illogical argument structures and selective research methods because of a broken newspaper system -- the real perpetrator behind this heinous comment. The result is a further misinformed readership angry about issues framed through fiction. Joe is a brave man to admit his anger. I beseech others to be more forthcoming.

Oh, and you have a notification.