update: kids at ‘the paper’ are mean
Add comment April 15th, 2008
i managed to watch “the paper” last night, the show i wrote about yesterday.
as i suspected, while the newspaper is the setting, and there’s a two-minute argument over grayscale, the show focuses on the drama of teenagers, which is a nice preview for me. i need to be reminded that my sweet little girls will be young ladies in another decade.
the pilot episode focuses on the fight to be editor-in-chief, and while most of her peers don’t want her to win, ashley is named to the top job by the teacher.
her “friends” were pretty mean to her through the process, but maybe i was like that in high school and didn’t even realize it. at least one of the girls told ashley to her face how she really felt: that she thought ashley was power-trippy. most of the others were just sarcastic or lied.
p.s. i was the editor of my high school newspaper (and i don’t remember how i was named, though in college i was “elected” to the editor’s job). and to show you how long ago that was, we printed out my high school paper on a dot-matrix printer.
