Notorious
Lately, Online Gargoyle articles have received a lot of outside attention. The OG’s big breakthrough, outside of the Uni community, was the Editorial Scandal (can I call it that?) that rocked our comments section in February until we had to shut it down.
Our next attention-getter was the National Scholastic Press Association’s Online Pacemaker award. Now, people from all over the country are reading our little online newspaper.
This is a great thing. It warms the cockles of my heart to know that a random Chinese middle-school student read my column on Venezuela, or even better, my film review on “Blades of Glory,” although I haven’t gotten any outside comments on that yet.
However, it has also opened up my writing to attacks from people I have never met, and who therefore don’t know how generally awesome I am. They just don’t treat me with the respect I deserve. For instance if a kindergarten teacher in Utah read this, she or he wouldn’t know that I was just being sarcastic. This is very frightening.
This does hold my writing to a higher standard, which I guess is a good thing. Just kidding — it’s a good thing. But it has also won me the hatred of a student from Smith and a student from Wellesley (see the most recent article in my “college journey” series).
This is very sad, especially since I’ve always wanted to be liked by everyone. Now I’m making enemies from all over America! I guess this just means that I’m becoming a real writer.
— Bethany Hutchens
Comments
Great analysis, Bethany. Stiff upper lip, I say. Remember, WE all know how generally awesome you are.
Posted by: Frances Harris | May 7, 2007 9:12 PM
Maybe since the Gargoyle won the Online Pacemaker, people expect us to be perfect.
Not everyone can tell that our site is run by something like 20 busy students and 1 busy adult - who aren’t perfect.
Posted by: Alan Liang | May 13, 2007 10:34 PM