Corey Pein has just penned an excellent story for the Santa Fe Reporter on a local college, its party scene and its future amid severe financial troubles.
Now students at the College of Santa Fe have responded with an increasingly familiar tactic. They’ve created a Facebook group called People for a Public Apology from Corey Pein. [Login required.]
On December 9, 2008 the Santa Fe Reporter printed the most distastful [sic] and blatantly untrue article that I have read in my past three years of residence in Santa Fe.
Even more unfortunately, the subject of the article was our beloved College of Santa Fe, an institution who’s community and students were so grossly misrepresented on and between the covers of the Dec. 9 Reporter that, if many of us had our way, the so-called journalist who wrote the main article, Corey Pein, would be fired and never published in any way, shape, or form, ever again.
However, as this is not a possibility, I believe we should ask the Reporter for a retraction of the story, as well as a public apology by Corey Pein, also to be printed in the Reporter.
Good luck with that, kids. But hey, where’s the unflattering photo of the journo in question?!
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Not a great issue for WW to get on a high horse about, in my opinion. I respect Corey’s work, and won’t make any assumptions about this new piece, but WW jumped the shark in terms of overly sensationalized and under-researched journalism the last time it took this subject on.
The fact that you guys can’t recognized that your screwed up reminds me of George Bush saying "hey, I’m not insulted" upon having two shoes thrown at him.
I wrote a story about a local college once, too. And something similar happened to me.
http://wweek.com/editorial/3427/10980/
So, I’m trying to figure out, has WWire heard that there’s snow in town? I’m sure there are plenty of WW angles to pursue, like how cyclists ride in the stuff, how the homeless are getting by, and what Adams and Potter are doing about it. Add a pic Greg Oden making a snow angel and you have a cover story.
Ha! Here’s something I’ve always wondered about: Are those little dog sweaters REALLY keeping our city’s pugs warm?
What are you referring to Pete? Your lack of specifics reminds me of George W. Bush’s war plan.
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Who is Corey Pein and why do we need to know this?
Steve, he’s God’s gift to women. Oh, and he worked at WW as a news writer until last month.
Wait. I thought I was God’s gift to the cause of peace and understanding between women and men. My attorneys will be contacting Mr. Pein regarding this infringement.
Mr. Pitkin, I seem to recall that they were hanging you in effigy over at Reed … Having recently met another Reedie, I’ll find out if it’s safe for you to go back. Don’t thank me yet.
Oh. Just read the story, Corey. Wonderful. Sign me up for "People Who Can Spell Against a Public Apology to Those Who Can’t." Being impugned as a journalist by college-educated ‘tards is a high honor. Kudos. I’ll have to have Botox injected into the sneer that cramped up when I read their buttFacebook screed. Please, Corey, apologize to these assholes. Unleash the dark side, and let them know that they are the sorry moe foes, and you are sorry that they are so fucking unable to write anything other than a pathetic spitwad of school spirit. As Hemingway said, "Fuck ‘em."
Jeff—
I think you’re thinking of Blagojevich.
James, Corey, and Beth, you need to start your own Facebook group along the lines of "Reporters who have been asked for public apologies by semi-literate college students UNITE!" I bet there are some reporters around the country who would enjoy swapping stories with you three.
I’m kind of mystified about the distaste for this "tactic." I’m not here to say it’s justified in every case — but if reporters have the right to express their views on various phenomena (and they certainly do), doesn’t the public have a right to express its own opinions on how that is carried out?
Just calling it a "tactic" doesn’t make it bad. Just like there is a range of quality in letters to the editor and calls to talk radio shows, some such Facebook groups may be more justified than others; but is there a fundamental problem with their existence?
As journalists, you hold your material up for public scrutiny. It may be that we have more tools at our disposal, these days, to express that kind of scrutiny; but I can’t imagine how that’s a problem. Especially on a platform like Facebook, which doesn’t allow anonymity to begin with.
So how is this news?
Headline for this should have been:
Santa Fe student, upset with portrayal of fellow students as drunks, drunkposts on Facebook