As a publication, the Oregon Voice stands behind its writers in print and online. Our blog post in response to the widely publicized and intellectually taxing Oregon Daily Emerald strike has apparently been a source of controversy for both the people involved and the one that wrote it. The fact that relationships between students [Get that? we're students] are being affected by this petty, bombastic strike is disheartening and doesn’t bode well for the future of journalism. Are these upset Emerald-ers that out of touch with what really matters? Have they already bought into the bickering journalism for journalists machine? At this age?
For shame.
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Petty? In what sense?
Hey Alex. The motivation for the strike was dubious. The whole conflict could have been resolved within the Emerald organization without the dramatic headlines and hackneyed notion of “independence.” There’s just no justification for that sort of posturing.
I’m utterly confused about where you get your information about how the Emerald organization works. I’m just an entry-level plebe, but from where I was sitting it looked like we spent about a month trying to solve the problem within the channels built into the organization, only to meet with deafening indifference or worse.
I’m utterly confused about where you get your information about how the Emerald organization works. I’m just an entry-level plebe, but from where I was sitting it looked like we spent about a month trying to solve the problem within the channels built into the organization, only to meet with deafening indifference or worse.
Bluntly, what experience do you have working with the Emerald Board?
The experience of talking with people on the Emerald Board is the basis for this opinion. What a month of negotiations couldn’t do was accomplished by a 48 hour gesture that just had to drag the whole campus into its melodrama? I’m sure there’s two sides, but from where I’m sitting, the other one seems more credible.
I think this is the kind of conversation that doesn’t make a tremendous amount of sense on this comment thread when we live in the same town/go to the same school/you are often seen in the coffee shop that employs me.