4/20

a day of pot smoking, and, apparently in Fargo, of sensationalized news.  I am currently ashamed to be a journalism student here, thanks to the yellow journalism our local newspaper has decided to publish.  This is worse than the editorial they ran a few months ago from a faithful reader who was upset that, although the price of gas has decreased dramatically, the price of potato chips continues to rise.  What's worse, a few days later the Forum ran an editorial from someone responding to the previous one regarding that, although he is an avid chip lover,  of both potato and tortilla varieties, he has now boycotted both kinds to "stick it" to the chip companies.  And I thought that was bad.  Nothing is worse than slandering the name of a talented young gentleman, and a prestigious organization he is affiliated with, just because it will get people to read the article.  This is lazy journalism, plain and simple.  The flood is over, and no NDSU football players have been arrested for DUIs in the past week, so clearly, the time is right to publish an article about a "Trollwood star's arrest due to domestic assault".  Perhaps the writer partook in a few too many 4/20 activites before sitting down to write the story.  I can only hope that is the case.

"Smoke the marijuana, sail the sea of sin..."