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| The Tribune: A discussion | Started by: Orwell on Feb 10, '08 16:31 |
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Sprozza had the paper for 2 issues, and had to write them almost entirely by himself, then got fired - I am still unsure why. You have released how many sub-standard issues now? Okay, you say that this latest tirade against you (as opposed to the several that have come before) has prompted you to work harder, I look forward to it. While I can accept that the Trib will never again be the paper it once was, I am just hoping it drags itself up from the gutter it's in now. Why are you out here asking how you should do your job? Did you not read the paper before you published it? If you did, were there not alarm bells going off in your head that it simply wasn't good enough? You say there's not enough news, fine, move to bi-weekly publication, but give us a quality product! Oh, and please, drop the attitude, the final paragraph in the latest issue is a disgrace. You're not a CL, you hold no power here - you are a newpaper editor nothing more. If mafioso object to reporters slandering them, how do you expect them to react? |
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| Reply by: Anthony_Scotto at Feb 10, '08 17:54 | |
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This wasn't slander. Orwell took it upon himself to shoot me, for no reason whatsoever. From: Orwell Subject: OMGZ. PURE ANARCHY! On a more serious note, my thought process was: "Hahaha lolz, free shots for all!" |
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| Reply by: Augustus_Haynes at Feb 10, '08 18:00 | |
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| Well all this talk is really getting us nowhere so I'm just going to get to work on the next issue. Which HAS to be good or my mailbox will blow up with hate mail. I would love to attened the rest of this discussion but I have alot of work to do and we all know actions speak louder than words. | |
| Reply by: RileyFreeman at Feb 10, '08 18:02 | |
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| Such a glowing example of what it takes to get a "Reporter" ID card.... You truly inspire me Augustus. | |
| Reply by: Serafina_Pekkala at Feb 10, '08 18:02 | |
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I appreciate the Sprozza reference there Anthony, he was indeed a Demi-God among men. Though let us not forget Shuki, who similarly wrote the paper almost single handedly for weeks on end, and not just that, but he was competing with a rival publication from CP, published weekly in the streets. In an environment where wars have been commonplace, there is always something to write about. Even after a lack of wars, the tension can be commented on, whether fictional or otherwise. I hate to be such a naysayer, but there is never an excuse for a sub standard paper, never. |
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| Reply by: Orwell at Feb 10, '08 18:03 | |
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Fuck, man. After reading your bullshit in this poster *I* want to shoot you. Are you going to write how my CL (er.. oops) obviously hates the paper and wants to kill all the reporters now? Fucking tool. |
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| Reply by: Tarana at Feb 10, '08 18:05 | |
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This wasn't slander. Orwell took it upon himself to shoot me, for no reason whatsoever. From: Orwell Subject: OMGZ. PURE ANARCHY! On a more serious note, my thought process was: "Hahaha lolz, free shots for all!" I had hoped it wouldn't come to mud slinging but here goes. 1. I shot at you because you are a substandard reporter, you claimed you could hardly have done anything to offend as you'd only written one article. The fact that you are a reporter and have only written one article offends me. 2. You forget the part where you mailed me saying, and I quote, "What the fuck were you thinking shooting a reporter". I could've replied with something in the same vein such as, "What the fuck were you thinking mailing someone who is clearly your superior", yet instead I chose a rather more satirical path. Additionally, I could've highlighted exactly why I shot at you, but I didn't think that was necessary, until now that is. This is a poor attempt at outing me Augustus, it is no secret that it was I who has shot at the reporters, and I would've admitted it myself bar my loyalty to my leader and therefore, the regard I hold for erta. I can only hope a combination of my speech, and the fact someone is displeased with you enough to be shooting at you, can drag you from you lethargic attitude and provide me, and the community as a whole, with some good journalism |
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| Reply by: Orwell at Feb 10, '08 18:10 | |
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Remember when it wasn't shit? He holds up a banner giving directions to; http://www.tiggybitch.com/tribune/Issues/Issue%2001.htm |
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| Reply by: Anthony_Scotto at Feb 10, '08 18:14 | |
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| Mr. Freeman, before you leave, 500k to all writers who submit articles that meet your word count requirement. Yes or no? | |
| Reply by: Derange at Feb 10, '08 18:14 | |
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| So basically, you're saying you were too uncivil just to mail me with a suggestion? Instead of mailing me with a suggestion regarding my writing skills, you were instead inclined to take my life over what you call a "sub standard" article. As for my initial mail, that's probably what anyone would think shooting someone else when you didn't even have a decent reason to fire off in the first place. Seems your standards are quite barbaric, if your logic is "If I don't like the paper, I'll just wack the staff." And you wonder why there's anonymous articles in the first place. | |
| Reply by: Augustus_Haynes at Feb 10, '08 18:16 | |
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| I am quite barbaric. Fairly appalling behaviour. One would assume I'm a criminal or something. | |
| Reply by: Orwell at Feb 10, '08 18:21 | |
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Hi. We're gangsters. If we don't like someone, we don't sit down and have happy fucking tea time. We don't hug you to make you feel better about yourself. We'll fucking shoot you. Get that through your stupid head. |
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| Reply by: Tarana at Feb 10, '08 18:23 | |
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Well what a collossal goat fuck the recent edition is. Like Comrade Orwell here, I too was interested to see what would be put out. Seemingly so much has happened in the past few days I thought it would be jam packed with interesting articles about the war, about the changes in Leadership, regarding the future of our world. Oh how unbelievably wrong I actually fucking was. So let's break it down and see what we were treated to (and I use the verb 'to treat' here as sarcastically as possible): 'A Letter From the Editor' by Riley Freeman Not exactly a letter but two paragraphs of excuses - and not a single apology for the eye-bleeding pile of wank that is to follow. For shame. 'Awards' by Spider-Pig Ah yes Spider-Pig, who obviously had some sort of insider knowledge as to the volume of votes for the nominees of each the categories. Oh, hang on a minute. No he had fuck all to do with the actual MRAG awards, so merely wrote out his completely unbiased opinion on the matter.. Let's not fucking kid ourselves here, it was completely biased and uninformed. It wasn't funny. Neither was it very accurate when compared with the actual results. Excellent piece of reporting there, if I do say so myself. I also really enjoy how this was the most important article after the Letter From the Editor. Considering the past few days' events, it really tickles my funny bone that the MRAG Awards take precedence over the decimation of a large proportion of our community. Kudos to the Editor for getting his priorities so very right. All in all, I was glad I skimmed over most of it. 'A note from Scarlett' by scarlett_rose Scarlett has already received quite a nice slew of abuse already in the Streets for this, to use the term loosely, "article". I won't beat a dead horse, but let's just say I absolutely agree with the opinions before me. Again nothing about the war mentioned, third in importance only to the letter from the editor which and Spider-Pig's piece of "writing" about the awards. Fucking excellent reporting guys, keep it up. 'Rogue' by Trident Ah, yes. Yet another commentary on rogues, something that honestly hasn't been covered enough by the voluminous topics that litter the streets. What's worse is that it doesn't even add anything new to the debate. It is simply a rehash of what has been said before, every sentence merely stating what practically all of the community already know. However, Trident I feel at least was making an effort to report something pertaining to our community. A rather large shame that Miss Rose was unable to correct some of the glaring grammatical and spelling errors for him. Another waste of my fucking time. 'HAHA' by Tookie Williams Mafia Christmas and it's fucking February? February?! The absolute irrelevance of this article is just astounding. Not only that, but it's not funny. Not even in the slightest bit. Someone either needs to kill you Tookie, or the cunt that allowed this article to be placed in the paper. I truly hope that both of you die. Major News with Mr Haynes by Augustus Haynes Ah finally! We get to the Major News. Obviously not that "major" in the eyes of the Tribune Staff since it was placed 6th in terms of importance! Surely Mr Freeman, this would have been better placed at the very fucking top of the paper? Major News?! Jesus fucking Christ I'm just over halfway through and I'm suffering from a headache the size of Texas, completely induced by this pile of textual dog shit, but let me continue. So Mr Haynes ensures us that he's up to date with all of the details. Fantastic. This was the one article I was hoping would shed some light on all of the events. So what do we get? A FUCKING PARAGRAPH? Rip my eyeballs out and let DW skull fuck me, a fucking single paragraph on the world-changing events that just happened. Something is so very wrong here and it amazes me that the one person we entrust to edit the Tribune can be so very far off the mark. I couldn't give a flying fuck if you were under pressure to put something out RileyFreeman. My grandma who knows nothing about our world nor the events that have happened could have written the entire paper by herself in an hour despite her senility and it would have been better than this patently ridiculous pile of refuse. All issues of the Mafia Tribune have been dancing around a line of mediocrity, we now plumb spectacular new depths. And just a big fat FYI: a1capon3's responses for this interview were probably the best thing in this entire paper. 'Cheating The GodFather' by Trident Again Trident with a valiant submission. This one better than his last. I actually thought it was fairly funny. Although again, what the fuck is a joke doing in the paper when we have a SINGLE FUCKING PARAGRAPH of reporting on the war?! Someone please tell me before I haemorrhage internally from the sheer disbelief. 'History' by General1 Actually, a good idea for an article. I like a bit of my Mafia history. Although surely history implies something that is quite far in the past. This article pertains to events that took place about a week or two ago. Not really "historical" but I'm being pedantic here. I actually liked what General1 was trying to do, but too short. It's almost as if the article is barely half finished before it's cut off. A word From our Reporter by Augustus Haynes I'm not sure I can even comment on this article without possibly suffering from a stroke. So I shall just say this: it's a fucking travesty that someone missed on you. But the biggest shame of all is that Riley "I don't do fuck all" Freeman possesses a bullet proof vest that makes him impervious to all gun shots. Otherwise I'd train a gun and shoot him in the face myself. And now to add in my last few comments: "I could give many reasons to make myself look better and correct your slander, but I don't feel I need to prove myself to anyone. - Scarlett" That sort of attitude is the reason why you shouldn't be a reporter/assistant editor, that and the fact that you're shit at it. "Riley wouldn't have hired me if I wasn't up to the job - Scarlett" If Riley can include an article about Christmas when it's fucking February then I can surely believe he hired you out of convenience and nothing more. Every issue our crew gets better at our job - Riley Freeman Clearly that is a complete and utter pile of bollocks or people wouldn't even be commenting here. And as for suggestions, I have a couple for you: Quit Riley. Quit Scarlett. All of you fucking quit and let's have someone in who can do the job please. In fact, why don't we look over this topic and see who thinks the paper is any good and who thinks it's nothing but sub-shit drivel. I know for a fact that the only people defending this tripe are the staff. I suggest we oust Riley. We can even be democratic and have a vote if you want. But the end result should be that we have a new editor and NOW. I don't want to see you "step up to the challenge". I don't want to see you "try harder". This week's issue was so bad in terms of article choice, layout, quality, that you 'trying' is just not going to cut it. Please for the love of God, step the fuck down Freeman. You are not good enough. You aren't even fucking close. I'd rather have no paper whatsoever than the fucking disgrace that we have at the moment. And lastly, just for the record, I can name at least 5 people that could do a better job than you and that five is not even including myself. I would happily do it and I bet you on my worst day, I'm still leagues ahead of you in terms of editing. That is all. |
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| Reply by: Anton_Chigurh at Feb 10, '08 18:36 | |
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And where the fuck IS our illustrious editor-in-chief? Hmm? Out here apologizing for the shitfest he just published? Promising he'll do better the next time? Offering more incentives for people to join his staff? Or sitting in his fucking office playing with his ball? Hmmmmm. |
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| Reply by: Tarana at Feb 10, '08 18:42 | |
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| Since bigamy is illegal, I have have to decide between Anton_Chigurh and Tarana, ty for that guys. You don't make things easy for me. | |
| Reply by: Orwell at Feb 10, '08 18:56 | |
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Orwell, don't make me fight with you over them. I haven't been able to decide which I want to have my babies yet. She holds her fists up towards Orwell. I'd punch you in the eye but I see you have a price on your head. Did you do something bad? You naughty, naughty boy. She punches Orwell in the nose and laughs. They are MINE! All mine. I want them to give birth to my babies.... Hell, I want them to team up and take over the paper. It'd be worth the read then. |
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| Reply by: Serafina_Pekkala at Feb 10, '08 18:59 | |
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Meh. I have a feeling if you knew who I was the choice would be a lot easier, sparky. Here's a simple fact kiddies, just because you have the rank of "reporter" doesn't make you better than us. If you feed us dog shit and try to tell us it's steak, we're going to be pissed off and probably try to shoot you in your smug fucking faces. Go back to your fucking little cave and have your little circle jerk and pretend the rest of the big mean world doesn't exist. |
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| Reply by: Tarana at Feb 10, '08 19:00 | |
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It tickles me that the vast majority of you save your best writing for slating people. It tickles me even more that the only time some people come out here is to bash someone. Pathetic little wank stains. Keep your crappy little opinions to yourself, you do nothing to try to further or enhance our world, you just sit there in your cesspool of hangers on, yes men and dribbling morons. I've yet to see any of you disagree with ANYTHING that has been said by your grubby little friends, instead you jump on the bandwagon of nit-picking and verbal diahorrea. I know, I know... pot, kettle, black is the response I am going to get, but to be quite frank I couldn't give a crap because these people are the ignoramus' who know less than what you can print on the back of a stamp in big red crayon. |
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| Reply by: TeQalicious at Feb 10, '08 19:03 | |
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Oh snap. TeQ = RileyFreemen. It all make sense. |
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| Reply by: Tarana at Feb 10, '08 19:06 | |
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Meh. I have a feeling if you knew who I was the choice would be a lot easier, sparky. Here's a simple fact kiddies, just because you have the rank of "reporter" doesn't make you better than us." I love the contradictions in these 2 lines. Boasting about your bloodline, then telling someone that their rank doesn't make them better than you. |
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| Reply by: TeQalicious at Feb 10, '08 19:09 | |
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