MTV's The Paper

[Write-brained]

Anybody watching this?

The show reminds me a lot of my h.s. newspaper days and a feud I had with a rival. But it also makes me cringe to see a bunch of high-schoolers dirty laundry aired on national television. They spend most of the show just ripping apart the female editor. How's that going to impact the rest of her life?

Anyway ... I've caught about 1 1/2 shows and can't help but wonder if this will suddenly make newspapers cool and relevant to the young generation highly sought after by newspapers, or if it will just show us newspaper geeks for who we are.

Anyone else work for their h.s. newspaper?

 

[captzulu]

Yeah, I did. Had to spend a weekend a month at school laying out the paper on Aldus Pagemaker on an old-school Mac and doing paste-up. Those long days and nights should've been a hint about things to come.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/55179/

 

[inkypinky]

When I was in high school it WAS cool to be in Newspaper. But that's because you got to leave campus during lunch hour everyday to "sell ads" - but it came down to just a handful of people doing all the work, myself included. I enjoyed it though.

I'm sure MTV will **** with this enough to make it seem much cooler than it is.

 

[Some Guy]

When I was in high school it WAS cool to be in Newspaper. But that's because you got to leave campus during lunch hour everyday to "sell ads" - but it came down to just a handful of people doing all the work, myself included. I enjoyed it though.

I'm sure MTV will **** with this enough to make it seem much cooler than it is.

Ah, yes .... selling ads. Code for "leaving campus, going to lunch, hanging out in my friend's basement and barely making it back to school for the next class." Good times.

At any rate, I've never seen this show. I only watch MTV for the music videos.

 

[DougDascenzo]

I did, and I had nearly the same situation with a younger, upstart (annoying) gal who wanted to be EIC. Being that I'd carried the paper the year before, recruited much of its staff (my friends), petitioned to get it made into a class and was COCKY AS ****, I figured the EIC gig was mine for the taking.

My senior year, me and said upstart sophomore gal battled it out for the top job, and, being the passive-aggressive hippie the adviser was, she made us co-EICs.

Maybe it was because I was always sneaking off to the dark room with the photo editor ...

 

[imjustagirl]

I did yearbook. All the fun of leaving class to sell ads (yearbook was the last period, so we just didn't come back) with only one deadline.

Way easier.

 

[STLIrish]

Yeah, I did. And, while we had our share of office politics and drama, it was nothing half as obnoxious as all that on the show. But I guess that's tv.
By the way, I don't watch much MTV. Do all their reality shows show actual teenagers getting drunk and hooking up? One thing when its 25-year-old actors playing teenagers on a show. But actual 17 year olds?
Maybe I'm just a prude, but what happens when the kids' parents watch this?

 

[spud]

Maybe I'm just a prude, but what happens when the kids' parents watch this?

Nah, there's no maybe in that one.

 

[Cadet]

I'm just jealous because those kids have better computers than my shop does.

 

[spud]

I'm just jealous because those kids have better computers than my shop does.

And the 70+ volunteers don't hurt either.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I did, and I had nearly the same situation with a younger, upstart (annoying) gal who wanted to be EIC. Being that I'd carried the paper the year before, recruited much of its staff (my friends), petitioned to get it made into a class and was COCKY AS ****, I figured the EIC gig was mine for the taking.

My senior year, me and said upstart sophomore gal battled it out for the top job, and, being the passive-aggressive hippie the adviser was, she made us co-EICs.

Maybe it was because I was always sneaking off to the dark room with the photo editor ...

Sounds almost like a Beverly Hills 90210 storyline.

 

[Boobie Miles]

When I was in high school it WAS cool to be in Newspaper. But that's because you got to leave campus during lunch hour everyday to "sell ads" - but it came down to just a handful of people doing all the work, myself included. I enjoyed it though.

I'm sure MTV will **** with this enough to make it seem much cooler than it is.

Ah, yes .... selling ads. Code for "leaving campus, going to lunch, hanging out in my friend's basement and barely making it back to school for the next class." Good times.

At any rate, I've never seen this show. I only watch MTV for the music videos.

So it's been what, 15 years since you've watched MTV?

 

[doubledown68]

I was the co-editor senior year, and had an enourmous crush on the other co-editor since like seventh grade. Back then I probably would've jumped in front of a train for her if she touched my hand or something.

Come to think of it, I'm glad MTV got this idea 11 years after I graduated. Really, really glad.

 

[Stitch]

Anyone catch the episode where one of the editors comes up with the original idea of participating in football practice one day.

Thirty-four years too late for the kid. Next time, do a wikipedia search on Paper Lion.

 

[-Scoop-]

I agree, in high school, working in newspaper was the cool thing. EVERYONE wanted to be in it simply to show off to their friends how their name was in the paper.

The "columnists" pretty much ran things, more or less, and that was attractive in HS.

Too bad it's pretty much all downhill from there.

 

[Stitch]

One fringe benefit that the guys covering the football team got was an attractive woman giving them their hernia check. Where was that when I was in high school? At least the bam-chicka-chicka-wow-wow bass guitar music didn't start up.

 

[fremont]

When I was in high school it WAS cool to be in Newspaper. But that's because you got to leave campus during lunch hour everyday to "sell ads" - but it came down to just a handful of people doing all the work, myself included. I enjoyed it though.

That was basically my experience. I was "selling ads" a lot and using my student media credentials to otherwise circumvent the school system as it pertains to the general student body. It was a blast, and I'd do it all over again. It was fun not having to worry about paying bills.

There is no proper journalism program at my high school anymore, and it is rather sad.

 

[Stitch]

The guy who likes High School Musical who cried in class was pretty funny. This show is a sick obsession. But I've been living out of a hotel for the past month since I started a new gig and my family is 1,000 miles away, so I have too much time on my hands right now.

 

[Tiger16]

I've found this to be somewhat enjoyable, mostly terrible...but still better than 99% of what else is on MTV.

There are some funny moments, and I still watch them on my DVR.