2008 Woodie Awards
A&E veteran vows
Trevor Parks
Issue date: 1/13/97 Section: Arts
to improve perusal
When I first took this job as arts and
entertainment editor at the Daily Nebraskan, I had no idea
what to expect.
With literally no editing experience under my belt, I
proceeded to dive into the section headlong and, in the
process, made my share of mistakes. I emerged from that
semester feeling a lot older, a little wiser and visibly
shaken.
But that was last year.
It is now 1997, and I am ready to reclaim the
oft-ridiculed position I held so dearly in the spring of
1996. I am ready to edit the stories, design the pages and
answer the phone calls. And, above all, I am ready to learn
even more.
So why should you care?
Well, I'm here to tell you that you should care,
because as a reader of the Daily Nebraskan, you may have
noticed that the arts and entertainment section hasn't
exactly been up to the standards set by the rest of this
newspaper's sections. It was like that before I took this
position last year, and to be perfectly honest I didn't do a
lot to change that when I had the chance.
But now I'm back to fulfill the promise I know this
section has within its scarred and misshapen belly.
And you should care, because if this section does work
to its full potential, it can be just as exciting and
mind-blowing as a full-color photo of Tom Osborne in tan
slacks, an in-depth story about Ben Nelson's hair or a Steve
Willey column about an unsavory bodily function.
In fact, it can be more exciting than any of those
things, if you're in the right mood and reading under
sufficient lighting.
So brace yourselves, because this section just might
change the way you look at the arts and entertainment
community in Lincoln.
This section will feature fewer and fewer reviews,
because who really cares what we think about the new Weird
Al Yankovic album? This section will feature more stories
about people who live in Lincoln and, miraculously enough,
who are doing something creative in their spare time. And
this section will feature more national interest stories,
because the world doesn't end at the edge of campus, or even
at the city limits.
Of course, I'm not ambitious or pompous enough to think
that I can keep the entire reading public satisfied. So I
encourage you to write to the Daily Nebraskan, give me a
phone call or even stop by the office if you have a story
idea or an opinion about something we're doing wrong -- or
maybe even right.
And if I can hear just one person say "Boy, the A&E
section didn't suck too bad today," I'll finally be able to
retire a happy editor. And I won't come back -- this time, I
promise.
Randall is a junior news-editorial major and the Daily
Nebraskan arts and entertainment editor.
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When I first took this job as arts and
entertainment editor at the Daily Nebraskan, I had no idea
what to expect.
With literally no editing experience under my belt, I
proceeded to dive into the section headlong and, in the
process, made my share of mistakes. I emerged from that
semester feeling a lot older, a little wiser and visibly
shaken.
But that was last year.
It is now 1997, and I am ready to reclaim the
oft-ridiculed position I held so dearly in the spring of
1996. I am ready to edit the stories, design the pages and
answer the phone calls. And, above all, I am ready to learn
even more.
So why should you care?
Well, I'm here to tell you that you should care,
because as a reader of the Daily Nebraskan, you may have
noticed that the arts and entertainment section hasn't
exactly been up to the standards set by the rest of this
newspaper's sections. It was like that before I took this
position last year, and to be perfectly honest I didn't do a
lot to change that when I had the chance.
But now I'm back to fulfill the promise I know this
section has within its scarred and misshapen belly.
And you should care, because if this section does work
to its full potential, it can be just as exciting and
mind-blowing as a full-color photo of Tom Osborne in tan
slacks, an in-depth story about Ben Nelson's hair or a Steve
Willey column about an unsavory bodily function.
In fact, it can be more exciting than any of those
things, if you're in the right mood and reading under
sufficient lighting.
So brace yourselves, because this section just might
change the way you look at the arts and entertainment
community in Lincoln.
This section will feature fewer and fewer reviews,
because who really cares what we think about the new Weird
Al Yankovic album? This section will feature more stories
about people who live in Lincoln and, miraculously enough,
who are doing something creative in their spare time. And
this section will feature more national interest stories,
because the world doesn't end at the edge of campus, or even
at the city limits.
Of course, I'm not ambitious or pompous enough to think
that I can keep the entire reading public satisfied. So I
encourage you to write to the Daily Nebraskan, give me a
phone call or even stop by the office if you have a story
idea or an opinion about something we're doing wrong -- or
maybe even right.
And if I can hear just one person say "Boy, the A&E
section didn't suck too bad today," I'll finally be able to
retire a happy editor. And I won't come back -- this time, I
promise.
Randall is a junior news-editorial major and the Daily
Nebraskan arts and entertainment editor.
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