BDH Pretends We Don’t Exist
Imagine our surprise to open the Brown Daily Herald this morning to find a nice feature on Prof. Felicia Nimue Ackerman, the prolific New York Times letter-writer, and not even a courtesy nod to the item we ran two weeks ago. This email from a BDH staffer made us feel better:
From: [redacted]@gmail.com
Date: Dec 6, 2006
Subject: Ackerman in BDH"To the editor: Ackerman shows knack for being published." Hmmm, haven't I seen this article before...say on IvyGate? Well, I'm sure the reporter credited the idea to IvyGate....really, no? Huh. Well at least it's newsworthy and timely...wait, it's not? Well at least it avoids a snide comment in the lede about sports....well fuck. I give up.
Sorry about this one. We'll try to not be such huge tools in the future.
We don't blame the freshman reporter so much as the editors, seeing as they're the ones who assign stories and then rewrite them in the office. Not cool, guys. Not cool. We're like a family, you and us, and family doesn't not give credit when writing about Felicia Nimue Ack--
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December 6th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
BDH = the new Kaavya?
December 6th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
I think that you could pick out the top scholar from Hofstra or Rutgers, and he would lose a Quizzo match to the kid with the lowest IQ from Yale, or Harvard. Not sure about Brown though. Oh Brown, I kid. Raise your glasses. Clink!
December 6th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
I think that you could pick out the top scholar from Hofstra or Rutgers, and he would lose a Quizzo match to the kid with the lowest IQ from Yale, or Harvard. Not sure about Brown though. Oh Brown, I kid. Raise your glasses. Clink! Colgate also stonks.
December 6th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
I’ve taken shits bigger than Dartmouth. And left them in the toilet.
December 6th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
I love the Beam Sr. quote in the link: “Fuck IvyGate.” That’s what I call journalistic transparency. No barely-veiled opinions there.
December 6th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
It may be relevant that today was the last day of publication for the BDH, meaning that it was the one day of the semester when they can print whatever the hell they want without having to run letters and corrections. Also, with no more issues left they’re forced to run all the shitty “articles” that had previously been held.
December 6th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Boohoo, IvyGate got shat on? What goes around comes around.
December 7th, 2006 at 1:17 am
So, call me crazy, but I just can’t figure this whole story out. I’ve read most of the links and the article here, and everything I’ve read is bizarre and nonsensical. Can someone explain what’s going on in a few sentences?
December 7th, 2006 at 1:40 am
Confused,
Basically, IvyGate’s dad, IvyGate, and the BDH all wrote about the same lady. It was IvyGate’s dad’s find that got passed down, and no one credited anyone for having already covered it. And none of it matters at all because it’s hardly news.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:26 am
Thanks! That definitely clears things up… and confirms that none of it is news to begin with. Awesome.
December 7th, 2006 at 10:55 am
Bee Shaffer writes for a Columbia publication
http://eye.columbiaspectator.com/index.php?page=post&article_id=2150
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:23 pm
i seem to remember a herald story about ackerman’s letters a couple years ago. this editorial board may have taken the idea from ivygate, but the subject is definitely no scoop — just a campus lore feature that probably gets assigned every couple years, like carberry day.