Talk:The Hoot

I added the "inappropriate tone" cleanup tag, since this article seems to be really sensationally written - it reads too much like a commercial for a tabloid, IMO. I don't know anything about The Hoot, but I think this article could benefit from some more NPOV. Peruvianllama 05:22, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

As a former Hoot editor who has felt the need to not touch this article, I can agree with you that there is a lot of interesting back-and-forth going on between childish rival college students, and this article has nothing approaching NPOV at this point. --66.31.36.180 03:35, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

I added an NPOV tag. In fact, I'm amazed at how non-neutral this article is. Basically, it says: "Look at all the things we've done! We 'fill in the gaps of the Justice' and 'uncovered disastrous faults in campus wide implementation of IPTV that would have brought down the entire Voice over IP phone network' and 'provided the only source of in-depth coverage on funding referendums that would have drastically change student club finances'!" I go to Brandeis and love my school, and I'm no bigger a fan of The Justice than I am of The Hoot (I don't particularly like either), but this article is ludicrous. Apparently, according to what's here, if not for The Hoot creating an antivirus, every student on campus would have been killed by a flesh-eating bacteria. -- Kicking222 06:16, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

I disagree: the Hoot is a competing newspaper, and on more than one occasion, they have filled in gaps in reporting that the Justice has left. In terms of the second paragraph, it was simply a synopsis of the publication's first semester--and not a terrible one, IMO. And, finally, to the person who had written the previous comment: you really need to follow what's occuring on campus more often. Skewing quotes and adding in exclamation points does a lot to push your point, but can you deny that the Hoot actually did or did not write these articles which did state that IPTV could have brought down the phone network, or that the Hoot did cover, in-depth, the funding referendums that would indeed have changed student club finances? Your bias, not the Hoot's, couldn't be more apparent: it's a shame that you have to besmirch their description simply because you "don't particularly like" the campus publications. "Ludicrous"? Only your response, Kicking222.

As the former copy-editor of The Hoot and one of the founding contributors to the paper, I'm going to chime in here. The article was originally written as a bit of a joke by another contributor; a little gentle ripping on the 800-pound-gorilla of The Justice by a former Justice editor. It's time to turn this into a real article since apparently this page is more than a placeholder. I went ahead and gave the old rusty copy-editing chops one more shot on this article, and I've removed the NPOV tag (any of the opinionated stuff has been either removed or prefaced with a "what the editors saw as," pretty much). If anyone's still unhappy, edit away. --droppedd, may 9, 2006

Reverted changes that took out the reason for The Hoot's founding and how it's funding differes from the other student paper. There was no reason to delete that information.