This week’s episode was ugly. I got screwed, Alex looked bad, and Adam looked like a little bitch. Of course when it comes to what i had to do about the humor column I regret nothing. I was promised the first two issues and I didn’t get them. I’ve heard some people ask why should I get a column at all, I’m not an editor. While it’s valid to say that, I guess the back story should clear up doubts.
Last year I wrote my first ever column, of course a humorous one. Sure enough, that column goes on to win an FSPA all-state column award. I go to Ms. Weiss and ask for a monthly humor, she say thats a great idea but you should go ask if a majority of editorsare okay with it too. They agree. So great, I think the next year I will get the monthly column.
Summer rolls on , and I get a phone call from Giana one morning saying I should go to the editor’s meeting because they might be scrapping the humor column. So I go there is a big argument, but most of the editors defend my humor column, and the two issue agreement is struck.
Giving Amanda the column in the first was a mistake, but to many people especially Giana, Cassia, and Charesse fought harrd for me to keep the column just for it to be given away. Besides at this point I’ve been screwed enough, I felt no sympathy for taking back my column from Amanda, after all her Journalism career has been fabulous, and although mine hass been pretty good too, I could have used a boost more than her.
Sure enough in the end I got screwed, but there’s been worse things to happen, I just wish Alex would have stepped up for me, but it doesn’t matter, Alex and I are still cool, and I got write two more columns, each of them are really good, and I wrote snother for a magazing the Circuit did for the first time ever, called The Outlet. Again this year I won an FSPA all-state collumn award, I feel solidifying the fact I’m pretty good at writing columns.
As for the way my good friends Giana and Trevor have been portrayed thus far, it’s not that they don’y feel that way about Amanda, it’s hard to explain but MTV does a poor job showing why they feel the way they do. You dont’ see thier point of veiwand you don’t really get to see the side of Amanda that drives everyone crazy. On top of that Amanda is always shown at home talking about how bad she feels about herself at home, drawing sympathy from the audience while Trevor and Gianaare only shown bitching, and if thy’re vision of Amanda was shown (annoying, controlling, attention thirsty) and then they got to speak thier two cents this would be a whole different show, and people would love Trev and G and hate Amanda. Unfortunatley thier is no way for this show to display everyone’s point of view, and the point of view they constantly show is Amanda’s, leaving Trevor and Giana looking like bastards, which reall thier not.
Any ways the show was pretty good this week, and in the real newspaper class room we just finished our last deadline, and as usual, Adam was screaming, Amanda was controlling and annoying, Giana was pissed at her, Trevor was flat out pissed because his double truck got messed with, Alex did a killer job, and Cassia did a great job too.
Oy, that was this week and I’m tired from typing, feel free to comment and give your two cents
May 16, 2008 at 1:35 am |
you are seriously absolutely adorable. so i see you use “oy”…and i know that alex and whatsherface are jewish…does cypress hill have a big jewish population? i know this is like the most random comment ever…but just something that popped into my head when i was watching y’all on demand
May 21, 2008 at 10:24 am |
It is unfortunate that Trevor and Giana are protrayed as the assholes of the show, but in the end, that is MTV’s job; to mold you guys into the stock characters that get the ratings. You’ve got Amanda as the control freak, Alex as the backbone, Giana and Trevor as the antagonists, you’re the comic relief, and Adam is the diva.
Those stereotypes are what makes the show great though. We love to see you guys have at it while simultaneously managing to get a great paper out. The show is excellent though. It makes me wonder why my school doesn’t have a paper.
And I’ve read the humor columns on the website, and you and Amanda both have different styles on writing humorous pieces. I think there should be two!
May 26, 2008 at 12:24 am |
Just a thought, Dan, but the whole argument of :
{{{{As for the way my good friends Giana and Trevor have been portrayed thus far, it’s not that they don’y feel that way about Amanda, it’s hard to explain but MTV does a poor job showing why they feel the way they do. You dont’ see thier point of veiwand you don’t really get to see the side of Amanda that drives everyone crazy.}}}}
…smacks of the traditional reality show excuse “they were edited badly”. Sorry, hun, but if someone acts that way, and it’s filmed, it’s a fact. While I’m sure Amanda had her bad moments, obviously MTV didn’t feel it was nearly as noteworthy as your friends’ behavior.
Also, whenever I watch the show, it seems like everyone has a huge chip on their shoulder that Amanda got EIC, and react based on that. Did you ever think your TEACHER/ADVISOR was responsible for that decision, any of you? You all act, on the show, like Amanda stole the position. Based on behavior that was aired, I wouldn’t trust anyone else to do it.
BTW, I find it ironic that I’m the first one to post a comment to this blog. I figured more of your friends from school would have posted something.