Bizarre editorial from the Northwestern student newspaper

Oh, stop. I'm going to criticize the world's most poorly written sock puppet. If this guy is real it's a terrible commentary on who is actually employable in the business.

You going to ignore the ignorance of what he actually has to say, or just be pleased he's attacking the same groups you do?

 

Third-person Fredrick's never done much for me. But, like I said, there's a few show ponies here like that, and hey, takes all kinds.

You attacked the one who didn't agree with your politics.

 

And you're defending the ridiculous, fake poster who agrees with your politics.

Feel free to travel through the J Board and see my history of posts with regard to "Fredrick." This was one of the nicer ones, and the first one in response to anything political.

 

As a housekeeping aside, I have many of the usual suspects on Ignore.

 

No, I’m not agreeing with him. I’m wondering why, all of the sudden, you waded through. I mean, I’m not wondering. I know why. I’m just curious if your vigilance against sock puppetry works both sides of the political aisle

 

Opinion writer at the student paper writes about it in the WaPo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...western-we-shouldnt-apologize-doing-our-jobs/

 

Waded through plenty before, but whatever. Point out a sock puppet on the left and I'll be happy to issue a Strongly Worded Statement.

Would you like to address the post I responded to? Fredrick is very concerned about the Democrats grilling witnesses with no Republicans allowed in the room. Any thoughts on that, since my criticism of that post is so concerning?

 

Don't know if he's a sock puppet, but Frederick is either an idiot or a sackless clown. He's whined on here for years about the suits making him work 12-hour days, seven days a week -- which he's most likely lying about. If he isn't, get a new job.

 

I am an old person who defends the younger generation as much as anyone here, but I just can't help but read these as Onion quotes. Good god.

 

That stood out to me, as well as the staffers’ thoughts on the reaction from “old media” confirming their stance.

Still, if I had to pick the future vanguards of the profession, I wouldn’t spend too long considering the folks watching reality TV in the newsroom. They’ll make great paralegals and RNs, I’m sure.

 

Like Alma, I assume the "staffers" mentioned above are the kids from the English department, not the journalism majors.