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"We will not be selling these kinds of ads as long as I remain the editor of this news paper," Daily Bruin Editor Anthony Pesce wrote in a note today. He's talking about the full-page ad for Haagen-Dazs wrapped around today's front page that was "specifically designed by a clever marketing department to fool you into thinking - if only for a few seconds - that my staff wrote the content that appeared on the front page." He and the newspaper's board--keep in mind, UCLA does not have a journalism department--talked about why the ad appeared in the first place: "The reality of our financial situation is grim, and the fact of the matter is that we would have been forced to cut thousands of dollars from an ever-tightening budget if we had not run this advertisement." Some staff tried to forfeit their pay in lieu of having the ad, but not everyone was able to take the cut. (Via LAObserved)
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Begley is a raving nutball and he is dead wrong. StrokerMcgurk
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"UCLA does not have a journalism department"
Right, they have a communications department, which is usually where journalism is under. You can even get a graduate degree in journalism at UCLA.
http://commstudies.ucla.edu/major
Okay, I had to correct this.
UCLA does not have a graduate degree in journalism. It does not even offer graduate programs in communication studies. And furthermore, comm studies and journalism degree programs are significantly different animals.
Wow...considering I was an editor for three years at a "prestigious" East Coast university, while I was also doing a workstudy job emptying trash, my gabbers are simply flabbered that some of these student journalists are getting PAID apparently...no more donations until I get my back pay!!!
At my school we had a WEEKLY paper, and it was apparently so much work to be an editor, that they gave them a not-too-shabby pay check. I worked on the executive staff of one of our two radio stations and didn't get diddly.