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The Daily OrangeLetters | Freshman fan story inaccurate
By Darryl Patteson
Posted: 9/17/07, 9:28 PM EST Section: Opinion
While The Daily Orange routinely does a fine job on campus news coverage, Monday's Pulp article "Freshman Orientation" failed on many levels.
The story quoted only freshmen and showed no actual "at-game" reporting. The dominant photograph shows students wearing Otto's Army and Homecoming 2006 T-shirts. Freshmen do not have these t-shirts as they were handed out last school year. In the inset photograph, the students are painted with "ESPN" on their chests. Are these students Syracuse University fans or TV fans? There's a difference.
There were upperclassmen standing and cheering a section down from the dominant picture. Selective reporting is not reporting. I personally reached out to a group of especially disenfranchised freshman last Thursday (two days before the Illinois game) to get their contagious spirit in the student section and working with Otto's Army. I could have told The Daily Orange this had I been contacted.
The attitude among The Daily Orange staff, this campus and the town hurts everybody, regardless of the quality of the SU football team. Careless, one-sided reporting and editing does nothing positive for the Syracuse community or the groups on campus working to maintain traditions. I want to see everyone at the game two weeks from now having a good time and doing everything possible to start the turn around of spirit at SU.
Darryl Patteson
Senior
President, Otto's Army
The story quoted only freshmen and showed no actual "at-game" reporting. The dominant photograph shows students wearing Otto's Army and Homecoming 2006 T-shirts. Freshmen do not have these t-shirts as they were handed out last school year. In the inset photograph, the students are painted with "ESPN" on their chests. Are these students Syracuse University fans or TV fans? There's a difference.
There were upperclassmen standing and cheering a section down from the dominant picture. Selective reporting is not reporting. I personally reached out to a group of especially disenfranchised freshman last Thursday (two days before the Illinois game) to get their contagious spirit in the student section and working with Otto's Army. I could have told The Daily Orange this had I been contacted.
The attitude among The Daily Orange staff, this campus and the town hurts everybody, regardless of the quality of the SU football team. Careless, one-sided reporting and editing does nothing positive for the Syracuse community or the groups on campus working to maintain traditions. I want to see everyone at the game two weeks from now having a good time and doing everything possible to start the turn around of spirit at SU.
Darryl Patteson
Senior
President, Otto's Army
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Menotti Minutillo
posted 9/18/07 @ 8:47 AM EST
Right on, Darryl
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