On the brink of the heat

[merry_rogue]

Since the last post, a Holocaust denier/revisionist drove up from Mexico to come speak on campus and a woman committed suicide off one of the university's parking structures.

I also interviewed Senator Leland Yee regarding the senate bills he's proposed for the California State University systemOther than school and the DT, things continue to

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[bla_girl]

Print journalism was so promising until the Internet came along.

[merry_rogue]

I figure so long as we write them fast enough, our stories are still translatable to the Web.

I hear our jobs are also getting outsourced to India. I can't, for the life of me, figure out how. Outsourcing is a bigger problem than illegal immigrants (they're ACTUALLY taking jobs people here are training for and not getting), but you know, we need India as an ally and all that. -_-

[bla_girl]

That's absolutely baffling! What would someone in India know about local issues? That's like telling an infertile woman to write about the joys of childbirth.

[merry_rogue]

Yeah, I thought I remembered hearing about it somehwere: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/14/outsourcing-journalism/

But I'm pretty sure I remember hearing about there being more cases than just the hiring of two reporters.

Completely off-topic

[merry_rogue]

Hey, this is Brandon posting with Christine's account. We're at Comic-Con, and Christine wants to know if there's anything you want us to snag for you while we're here. She has her cell with her, if you'd prefer to call.

Re: Completely off-topic

[bla_girl]

Anything Capcom, Warren Ellis and whatever random crap Drawn & Quarterly or Fantagraphics is handing out.

Thank you! Tell Christine I said hi!