Rebel Roundup

Coincidentally, I called out Jacob Threadgill in one of my review of the basketball game vs. South Alabama.

I guess the Cup and the Ghost of Chucky do have something in common after all....

Greg Hardy looks like Prince fucked the Incredible Hulk.

Kentrell Lockett has dolphin teeth.

My new least favorite DM writer is Blake Emidy, a freshman opinion writer who cranks out well researched journalistic stances such as "Rush was kinda cool, I guess," and "All this election stuff is boring, for real." One of many in a long line of complete dim-wits chosen to represent the University's student body through print journalism. I mean Jesus, the qualifications to write for this paper are non-fucking-existent: you're a freshman who can't write for shit, has no interesting perspective on anything, and no educational background to lend credence to your lame-ass opinions? COME ON DOWN!!! A freshman found guilty of plagiarism looking for a place to spew your hate for white people and blame them for wrongdoings that are ancient and/or imaginary? SIGN UP HERE!!! What a bunch of idiots.

/angry rant

whhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaa.

Settle down, Whiskey.

What do you expect of the DM? The last shot at greatness they had left when Scovel and Doyle did.

Yeah, there. I said it.

Doyle was king shit. Ochs was a good sports editor, actually had interesting takes from the writers then.

Now, all the DM sports writers are hacks.

I blame Doyle Jackson.

No joke, the quality of writing in the DM blows. May as well give a laptop to Tinkerbell.

The Dolphin Teeth line is priceless.

Les Miles' wife wears underwear with dickholes in 'em.

Lest we forget Robert Reece?

Sorry, I got side tracked.

@ DYBD:

Yeah, that was the 2nd guy that I was referring to. One more (slightly drunker) mini-rant on the DM: I've got a multitude of problems with the DM and their staff:

1. They use unqualified writers. To an average 22 year old senior undergraduate, an average 18 year old freshman is not going to have anything interesting to say. High school education in MS is, for the most part, insular, biased, and incomplete. Your opinions, however brilliant they may seem at 18, will and should change when you gain some credible perspective on life in college. And it doesn't happen in a month or two. There are too many freshman and sophomore writers on staff.

2. Writing is of exceptionally poor quality. If I got paid $1 for every typographical error I casually discovered in the DM, I could quit my lame-ass job. Honestly folks, I write for this blog for free, and you could probably count the number of typos I've drunkenly vomited onto the keyboard on one hand. As for real academic work, the same could be said for 4.5 years worth of papers. Proofread your shit. It isn't hard.

3. You write about shit nobody cares about, not even yourselves. Fair or Foul? Who reads that shit? A couple of kids who were rich dorks at Jackson Prep suddenly have a long-running column in the DM informing the entire student body of their vanilla, unfunny opinions about mundane bullshit? Give me a fucking break. He said, She said? Again, some bullshit spewed out by some borderline illiterate assholes that sounds like some weak-ass rant from MTV's Wild n' Out casting rejects. Fucking. Pathetic.

4. The DM has no journalistic integrity, no matter what side you stand on. My freshman year, they ran an ad bought by a white supremacist group, probably because they didn't research what it meant enough to know better. Oops. Robert Reece remains on staff serving up mainly ignorant, hate-inspired opinion articles every week, despite having totally nullified his journalistic integrity his freshman year. David Thigpen probably thinks blacks are inferior, and almost certainly thinks that the world was born 4,000 years ago and that vaginas are evil. Most of the rest of the staff is no better. And yeah, there have been a half dozen or so writers for the DM that I would gladly share company with, and admit that they know what's going on, and were/are good at what they do. But damn, folks, with 15,000 or so undergraduate, we can't find 20 folks who can write correctly, express interesting/well researched opinions, and avoid saying hateful, inflammatory, and ignorant things every other issue? Sorry, long week, go to hell LSU, rah rah rah, etc.

/angry rant, for real this time

"Writing is of exceptionally poor quality. If I got paid $1 for every typographical error I casually discovered in the DM, I could quit my lame-ass job."

The worst part about it is that oftentimes the editors are the CAUSE of these errors. I had a few typos, syntactical mistakes, and overall fuckups printed under my name which I had nothing to do with.

Many of the writers aren't qualified to write and, unfortunately enough, many of the editors aren't either.

Sorry I'm late to the party here (damn Ghost, 5:49 a.m.?), but I think you guys are painting with an awfully broad and unrealistic brush here.

Granted I've been off-campus since 2005 or so, but I remember these people you're talking about. The Reece kid is absolutely terrible and should not be allowed to write there. Thigpen (who we called "bow-tie" for brevity's sake) is only slightly less obnoxious, but also shouldn't be able to write there. And you're dead on about the "vanilla"ness of the silly editorial pieces those kids do, but:

The editors there, the department heads I mean, sit in that place often until the wee-hours of the morning on a nightly basis. I mean, they're 20-22 year-olds who almost certainly could find more entertaining, less stressful things to do with their time. They also take full 15 hour course loads, just like most of you. That job is probably the most time-consuming, underpaid student job on campus. And they do it anyway, because they are trying to get better at something they plan to make a career out of. They are also always at the mercy of less-dedicated, younger writers who routinely turn assignments in late. I guess what I'm saying is the editors there can only work with whatever dunderheads walk through the door and volunteer to write. Its not like people are beating down the doors of the SMC to write for the DM.

Lets not forget that these are amateurs donating large amounts of time to a daily newspaper. They are going to make typographical mistakes.

/No affiliation with the DM except once wrote a piece on Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons that got turned in two days late.

Ole Miss INSIDER, by the way, is not a product of amateur student media; it's brought to you by Langston Rogers.

Oh. No idea what INSIDER is, but I do think Langston Rogers should be punched in the throat at least twice a day, just out of principle.

Also, it should be noted that I was in school during the Keiffer / Beitzel / Godfrey era of the DM Sports Section. Truly halcyon days for DM Sports. So maybe I'm trying to defend something that in no way resembles the way I see it in my head.

All I want to say to all of this is "bravo."

Carry on.

"I mean, they're 20-22 year-olds who almost certainly could find more entertaining, less stressful things to do with their time. They also take full 15 hour course loads, just like most of you. That job is probably the most time-consuming, underpaid student job on campus. And they do it anyway, because they are trying to get better at something they plan to make a career out of."


Well said, Beck.

These are children, Whiskey. If you hate it, don't pick it up. I can't understand why you're so offened by a lack of brilliance from a student newspaper.

You sound like the grumpy men who sat on the Muppet Show balcony.