2008 Woodie Awards
Letter from the Editor
Gerry Blakney
Issue date: 11/9/07 Section: Post
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Editor in Chief
As Editor in Chief of the Journal I hate to admit it but the Journal is a product. One that lives and breaths fundamental truths which are balanced upon many things but mostly the hope that the Journal is useful, needed and lastly trust-worthy. As a simple equation, if the Journal is no longer useful, needed or trust-worthy, myself and my staff might as well pack-up our offices and quit.
Recently an argument has arisen that may have fallen outside most of our reader's radar. That would be the very serious accusation leveled by Dr. Bergeron stating that the Journal doesn't care about the truth. Making that assumption absolutely calls to question the morals and beliefs of the staff, myself and our advisor, but more importantly speaks directly to the question; is the Journal useful, needed or trust-worthy?
Using basic logic skills (of which, I have very few) Dr. Bergeron has made the claim that the paper printed false information on our cover, that we tried to cover up the argument and divert the public's attention by obfuscating the issues, using irrelevancies and raising the specter of censorship - all the while staying true to our right to print the "truth." Therefore, he concludes the Journal doesn't care (or is too lazy to worry) about the truth.
The statement or "truth" I'm referring to, is that the Journal is student owned and operated, which ran on the Journal's, Oct. 12 front cover.
Vice President for Student Affairs, Dr. Gary Dukes, weighed in on the issue, telling our adviser that the statement needed to be changed or removed. The Journal decided to run that email on the front cover, in reference to which Dr. Bergeron wrote an email to myself, as the Editor in Chief, condeming our decision and labeling it a "cheap shot." That week the Journal ran Dr. Bergeron's comments in a recap story about the cover.
In a (not so) surprising twist of events, Dr. Bergeron felt it important to protect his good-name by putting the Journal in its place. He wrote a letter to the Editor, armed with his thesaurus, wit and computer, calling into question one of the previously mentioned, fundamental truths- is the Journal trust-worthy?
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