Pillow Talk: Too Risky for The Student Printz

[gloryousperv]

I have a great many good and close friends. Many of my friends tell me that they enjoy reading Pillow Talk. Some of my friends are even writers and journalists. For all of these friends here's a little news of mine.

At 4:21pm Wednesday while I was packing for my five o'clock class, I received a call from the executive editor of the Student Printz

Comments

[geisha_kitten69]

I liked it. What was their problem?

[gloryousperv]

The editors didn't want anything even hinting about celebrities in the article for fear of being sued. I did point out that everything I wrote about the three women was reported in the media and at this point common knowledge. But reporting facts seemed to be too risky for them. The excuse was so weak (and so close to printing time) that your guess is as good as mine for the real reason.

[geisha_kitten69]

How dare you report the facts! Make something UP, woman! :-P

*HUGS*

[shadow0sphinx]

As far as I can see there is nothing in that article that could get the Printz sued (not even for slander). And really if they were so worried about the names they should have taken your suggestion to take out the lawyer line, that would have given them plausible deniability should a lawsuit arise. In short they have no grounds for not printing the article.

[lustbear]

Wow... I miss McRaney, and Chance... They had Spirit, not cowardliness. They were journalist, something very few people are. They will be missed...

[enajra]

I can understand their issue with the whole high risk thing which could have caused a huge media issue. I would think just changing the names would have been fine and taking out the lawyer bit.

Also there is the possibility of people stating the racism is reflected in the article even though it is a proven statistic, but you did reference where you got the statistics.

Weird. It should have been posted.