Although we cordially participated in the Sea Kitten portion of your most recent issue, we were saddened to find a major edit to our submission. Our submission included the following sentence: "Aristotle Popodopoulos, an international student from Greece, has been attempting to bring back the spirit of the ancient Olympics, but has been kicked out of the weight room due to his nudity."
The Beacon published "Aristotle Popodopoulos, an international student from Greece, has been attempting to bring back the spirit of the ancient Olympics."
When we sent the submission, the following message was sent with it:
"Please contact us before any changes are made, and please credit the author as "www.thebacon.org." Thx, hugs."
We received no email about the edit.
The Bacon staff is offended by the edit, and the breach of trust concerning the article. We would appreciate an apology and a retraction in the next issue.
The Bacon Staff
18 comments:
I think this comment is a little general. Sure, you can attack the entire Beacon staff. But it would be better directed at the people who edited that section, rather than generalizing that all staff members are slackers.
Trust me, some work very hard on their sections, and work with integrity. It's very frustrating to those that put in extreme amounts of effort when something that was supposed to be fun turns out ... well ... kinda crummy and poorly edited.
Let's face it, Beacon editors have never been very good. The Sea Kitten section is just exponentially worse because it showcases "journalists" trying to be funny... which just didn't happen in most cases. At the Beacon's behest, the Bacon wrote an article, and the Beacon editors modified it without consent, removing a line about nudity, but leaving in a blatant line about drug use. Good job, Beacon editors. Good job.
confused alum sez:
Me no understand!
Explain.
You tell them, Bacon!
Another reason to boycott the Beacon and read the Bacon!
Excerpt from the Miller's Analogy Test (MAT):
1. Student Government : PBA Administration
A. Fox News : G.O.P
B. Proctologist : Impacted Patient
C. Bob Jones University : Bob Jones
D. Peanut butter : Jelly
Choose the BEST answer.
Hey, remember that Meeks has to approve things the Beacon reporters write. Meeks had to read the SeaKitten before anything was sent to the printing press. Chris the English major, it's the job of the editors to, well.... edit.
A few of the articles of the SeaKitten were quite funny and enjoyable to read.
http://www.pba.edu/beacon/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.detail&issueId=21§ionId=1&content_id=378
According to this article, Meeks went on a trip with some of our film students to a national competition (which they won). You'd think he'd know how to spell their names by the time the article went to press. Considering all but one of their names are misspelled in the article, it's doubtful at best that Meeks reads or pays attention to everything submitted.
Also, my original point was that the editors removed a seemingly benign comment about nudity while they left an extremely thinly veiled drug reference. Which, then, is more offensive: the fact that the Beacon editors edit without consent or that they don't do it well?
As far as the Sea Kitten goes, I thought it would be funny when I first opened it up. On the whole, I was disappointed. The article about interstellar freshmen was probably the best one printed. I even thought the Bacon article was funny until I found out about the edit.
So the edit made it not funny or...? Just want to clarify what you meant.
Let's just face the Beacon is going to hell
I don't know about that, regarding the Beacon being all bad- take a look at the latest issue, re: April Fool's page. Granted, it's no Bacon, but I thought the piece on the new president was funny. I think they recognize that they need to loosen up a lot. I think the Bacon has helped the Beacon to see that.
In reply to many of the Sea Kitten articles:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/01/hitchens200701?currentPage=1
The Beacon has a blog now...I think they are just desperate for attention! Let's boycott the paper and the blog, so the Bacon can be our only source for news.
Hey Anonymous, Did you ever think the Beacon Blog "Desperate for Attention" might also be seen as 'looking for more resume building?'
I give it mad props.
Why don't you comment THERE with your opinion?
Nope they are just bunch of people on crack
oh booo hoo! they cut out a sentence! go cry about it and appreciate the fact that they can edit.
Seriously bacon, one sentence didn't make you less funny.
This isn't helping you, this is you trying to spite the beacon. Your most recent posts are slamming the Beacon, and the student editors that make mistakes.
Let them mess up now and then. Cut them a break, really.
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