“In 2010 a socially short, submoronic clique were outvoted by the rest of their university on an issue they didn’t like. These people promptly escaped from anybody's notice whatsoever to the Lancaster underground. Today, still not wanted by anyone, they think they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you percieve a problem, if you know no one else will care, and if they can be bothered, maybe you can talk to the In For A Penny (formerly known as Project X) team.”
There are some things that some people should never attempt. Socially inept and underachieving sloths such as this A-Team-esque clandestine group, who probably see themselves as conspirators when in fact they're just giggling charletans behind the curtain of their own delusions, should not try underground journalism.
Not when a) the yardstick they are attempting to undermine is actually impressive and will not fall down at the first glance of their short-lived attempts to 'reveal' it as a mess;
b) when the last things they have been in charge of or involved with at any high level have been the radio station and the TV team which both serve as grimy examples by which the campus' sole news medium that works, the newspaper and its website, can only appear more gleaming and well-built;
and c) when it is so easy to find out who these 'anonymous', practically boasting opinionated and wrongly informed toddlers with keyboards are, either by a little bit of computer magic or by some very simple deduction from yours truly.
It isn't even the attempts at creating a rival media with which competition can be waged that annoys me- they're welcome to it, and rivalry is a healthy thing. It's the substandard manner with which they conduct themselves, the fact that it's pretty certain that it's going to be a fad which will fizzle out as every manifestation of their thirst to prove themselves does, and the fact that in commenting with a bit of opinion on a few things happening around the area they feel they really are sticking it to the man.
No one reads it. I hate to break it to them. But it's something you have to learn to live with.
If no one is going to read the main media, why would they read a single stream of a few blog posts?
For your entertainment and delectation, compare-
Have a go hacks
Serious attempts?
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