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Mon May 05, 2008 at 12:05:06 PM

The Contra Costa Times' Chuck Barney hopes the Weston high schoolers on MTV's "The Paper" will "step it up and inspire a whole new generation of young Woodwards and Bernsteins." Sorry Barney, but you're barking up the wrong tree. Have you seen this show? There's nothing inspiring about these kids. More like depressing. The kids on the Cypress Bay High paper are all about bickering within the ranks and, so far, have done nothing journalism-wise. They aren't challenging the faculty or the student body. In fact, I have seen absolutely no sign of intelligence from the show yet. I'm not saying that all the kids featured are hopeless, some of them might wind up great. But so far all we've seen is what I predicted back in the day, that it would be another MTV "melodrama about insufferable rich kids." How did I know?

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Feller says:

c'mon bob, you know they're not allowed to challenge anything.

let's assume they've got some ideas to call out the principal or some other person in authority - do you think mtv is really gonna show them being told a story is too controversial?

better yet, do you really think a school in broward county, or the school board itself, would accept being questioned in print by a bunch of kids in a newspaper that they are funding?

i've seen arguments in newspaper offices that were much more colorful than what they showed last night. just as i'm sure you have too. call it what you will, but they are learning important lessons now, and when they all get to gainesville (notice that they all wear gator stuff) they'll learn how to raise a ruckus while busting ass at the alligator.

some of those kids will go on to do good things, rich whiners or not. at least the show isn't focused on their cars and closets.

and besides, what more did you expect from the network of tila tequila?

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