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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fact that student newspapers are publishing all these really uninformed hot takes is bothering me way too much than it should. I thought the youths were supposed to be alright!!!

https://www.thehofstrachronicle.com/category/editorials/2021/11/2/bad-art-friendsor-just-bad-people

https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2021/11/1/little-fires-everywhere/[/quote]

"What the world learned from that fiasco is that everyone sucks and even grown adults in the professional sphere can be petty."  Not sure this is true, but even if it is, that seems like a valid lesson.  I'm going to be extra careful with what I say and do around friends to be sure I'm neither "cringe" nor falling into bad group think/ nastiness.  Helpful to remember that just because we are adults, we can still fall into the pettiness traps.

My big take away from the "fiasco" is that you can't trust the NY Times.

Also, that modern narrative requires conflict, but the conflict can't be too obvious-- good  (kidney donor) vs. bad (plagiarist and bad friend) isn't the kind of narrative that sells papers and gets you clicks.  Writers will be less than honest about facts in order to make the conflict more modern and nuanced.  LEss than honest means things like failing to mention that Kidney Foundation people want kidney donors to develop a support group on Facebook to make the donations successful and to get the word out about it --- and failing to mention that the kidney donor and the plagiarist had a long standing friendship and Dawn was addressing her 30 closest friends, not hundreds or thousands of acquaintances. That kind of information gives a fuller and more honest perspective of Dawn's motives, but that does not work in modern narrative because she just looks so much like an angel that the story is dull and childish.  For the story to be compelling enough to read, Kolker had to quickly sketch Dawn as flawed.  That works when he is wearing his novelist hat, but not when he is supposed to be wearing his journalist hat.[/quote]

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