Comments on: One of these things is exactly like the other: Hoya misprint in Friday edition

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:55:39 +0000

I find it ironic that you write about a screw-up of The Hoya’s that wasn’t their fault, and, in the process, you made an even more grave mistake. At least The Hoya is accurate…

By: Chelsea Paige

Chelsea Paige — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:15:28 +0000

jeez, traviss, what’s with you and those girls in the picture?

is there something i should know?

By: Will Sommer

Will Sommer — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:36:30 +0000

Please, there’s nothing more humanizing than a good blog comment.

Everyone, there’s a Moral Kombat discussion in another thread. Do it….

By: Traviss Cassidy

Traviss Cassidy — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:10:34 +0000

Here’s a thought: how about everyone actually posts their FULL name when they make a comment so this thread doesn’t turn into a string of anonymous bashing, okay? As David Gregory astutely pointed out a couple days ago, this is a dehumanizing medium of communication, and at the very least we could identify ourselves and try to be civil. I bet those girls in the picture play nice.

By: Anna Bank

Anna Bank — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:10:44 +0000

Hunter — agreed. Glad to hear it was a printer problem, but even if it was a staff error, I know none of the Voice section editors on here have ever put the wrong dates on their pages, etc. Right?

By: mike

mike — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:44:14 +0000

I think what alum was saying was that it was a stupid editorial because it was about Georgetown Day, which although it is a blast is not something worth dedicating time too. Secondly, if The Hoya had run an editorial for Tuesday’s edition with evidence about the GUSA mishap still coming in it would have been unable to make an honest and legitimate argument and would have lowered itself to the level of journalistic integirty present at The Voice

By: Will Sommer

Will Sommer — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:07:23 +0000

I’m as sick of this as everyone, but alum, you’ll notice that the post actually doesn’t attack the Hoya for the printing error–it disses them for not writing a GUSA editorial right when they had the news.

What’re the errors in the Georgetown Day editorial?

By: alum

alum — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:34:24 +0000

Printers mess up. To pre-emptively attack the Hoya for having a printing error is stupid, and it reveals the inferiority complex the Voice has been crippled by for decades.

As for being lazy, some papers at larger universities do print daily. Others don’t. Hardly any papers–professional or not–write editorials on breaking news stories. It’s impracticable and usually not smart to pass judgment on breaking stories.

The Voice would be well served by taking a page out of the Hoya editorial board’s book. And stop writing idiotic, inaccurate editorials expressing outrage at non-issues. (ahem, http://www.georgetownvoice.com/2009/02/12/georgetown-students-earn-their-day/). Hoya editorials have been surprisingly good of late.

Good blog though–maybe you should consider dropping the paper and sticking to what you’re (for the most part) good at.

SFS 07

By: Molly Redden

Molly Redden — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:14:20 +0000

I’ll step out of the way after this, but my intention in posting this wasn’t first and foremost to jab at the Hoya. Not that I didn’t enjoy myself.

It’s one of those news bits that straddled the line between Twitter and blog, and I chose to blog because: 1) once we found out what had gone wrong (Dwulet’s letter) it was nice to have all the information in one place and 2) you’re right Travs, those girls are just so cute!

By: hunter

hunter — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:08:05 +0000

Fiore,
I was agreeing with you that in this instance we DO come off as whiny and having an inferiority complex, which is unfortunate.

we shouldnt have posted this, but criticism is really the only way to get better – so try not to be so defensive and use the criticism to improve the quality of your paper.