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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 3:29 pm
The Paper Follows journalism students at a HS Newspaper. There's still time to catch the premier, as it has been repeatedly aired since Monday. First impressions for me. I was so busy reminiscing way back to my old HS journalism days, I didn't really form any opinions yet. So really, my main first impression is.....my how things have changed! There were certainly no computers back when I was on the paper (1977). We typed up our copy on super-advanced electric typwriters. Double spaced, for the purpose of passing our copy around to the editorial staff, who made copy-editing marks to change things as we saw fit. Main goal was to always preserve space, while keeping the story intact. After our copy made its rounds and was finally edited, it was sent off to the printers. It came back to us on a special material that had a tacky background on it (which would then stick properly to the layout page). You had one chance, and one chance only to crop your copy (and the pictures) by hand (with a ruler and xacto blade), so it would fit on the layout page. If you cropped it wrong, it was ruined. I remember cropping one pic too small, and we had to shave a sliver from the cropped material to try and edge it back up to the pic on the layout page, hoping the lines didn't show. Laying out the paper was all about knowing exactly how much laying out space you had, how much copy you had, and doing the math so everything fit just so. Once the paper was laid out, off it went again to the printers, and a few days later we had a bonafide newspaper to deliver to the student masses! I'd love to hear someone's experience on a paper from the computerized age. I'd love to know exactly how its done now-a-days. I could speculate that editing is done all on a network, layout is a lot of cut/paste. And I wouldn't be surprised if the paper is even printed in-house too! But, I'd love to hear how its really done.
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Oregonguy
Member
02-12-2006
| Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 8:59 am
i felt bad for amanda, her fellow classmates were very rude to her. she reminds me of a young sally jesse rapheal.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Yes, they were very rude to Amanda. In that respect, I guess we could say, "the more things change, the more they remain the same."
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Monday, April 21, 2008 - 9:59 am
I liked Amanda well enough wspecially when you compare her to the others they've featured. They said something like their paper has a staff of 50??? but they only showed us a handful of Amanda haters. I hope Amanda has a few fans on staff otherwise this year will be hell for her. After watching the show I wondered how anyone makes it through HS without scars. I'm really looking forward to the episodes to come.
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Kellsma
Member
08-28-2002
| Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 8:02 am
After last night's show, I am thinking Amanda is a little strange. Love how she talks to herself or the dog. It is sad because it does not seem like she really has any friends. She is obviously quite driven which is great to see, especially being the mother of a 16 year old girl who is more like the other kids where their social life is much more important than their scholastic life. Amanda is looking ahead which is great but I think all these shows need someone you love to hate and that is Amanda in this case. Loving this show....
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 9:54 am
I don't love to hate Amanda...I like her especially compared to the other students we've seen. Don't forget she's not just talking to her dog but to the camera and person operating the camera. She's a smart cookie and knows that she's on camera and in a way playing a role even if the role is herself she's playing. The girl with the long straight brown hair ("the girlfriend") is the one I dislike. She rolled her eyes a few times and obviously didn't want to be at the ice cream social but didn't have enough maturity to say so. She rather continue on and make Amanda's tenure more difficult than it should be. I wouldn't be surprised if she veers off into acting when she goes away to school. High School may seem so very important as you are going through it or are the parent of a child going through it. But in the big scheme of things it's just a superficial blimp in lifes history. The Staff all need to grow up a bit before they venture out into their silver spoon world. Amanda got the job so stop whining. I liked the mother of the boy who thought he absolutely deserved the job over Amanda. That mom gave good advice to her son. sigh....thats all ;)
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 3:58 am
I did a bit of Googling, and found the school's website, as well as the website of the paper, for anyone who is interested..... Cypress Bay High School Cypress Bay HS "The Circuit" Boy, that's a BIG paper! Check out the pdf files in the archives. 30+ pages! I think our paper was about 8 pages at most! LOL.
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Angelicfairies2
Member
07-19-2004
| Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 6:42 am
I didn't realize this was shot in a florida school...I thought the amphitheatre they went too looked familiar.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 12:38 pm
They really do have at least 50 on the staff! And the show must be from just last fall, since the names are all familiar on the editorial staff on that site. I really feel for Amanda too and am not fond of the snarky crowd. Amanda puts up a good front part of the time but she was so sad singing with her friend at home.
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Ccorces1
Member
08-08-2006
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 1:44 pm
Hi! Lauren with MTV here and I am so glad to hear you’re into The Paper. Amanda has a personal YouTube page at http://www.youtube.com/user/superrfr3ak with lots of fun videos she's been posting since well before The Paper started airing. Also, feel free to add The Paper on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/thepapermtv Enjoy!
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Angelicfairies2
Member
07-19-2004
| Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 2:05 pm
I still love Amanda. Is this show not on anymore?
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Jodied75
Member
08-26-2004
| Friday, June 13, 2008 - 4:06 pm
I've been watching it on MTV Canada, Angel. It reruns several times a week here. I somehow missed the latest episode. The last one I saw was when the two guys went on the football team and Alex(?) was mad at Amanda because he thought they were making fun of him. I like Amanda okay, but I almost feel sorry for her. She's very strong in many ways, but in others she comes off as a little desperate. Can't stand the snotty "girlfriend". *sigh* I was bullied in HS and I could feel virtual pain again when the kids were being so nasty talking about Amanda. I think I was actually like Amanda, quite a bit. I tried too hard.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 5:51 pm
I'm on the Amanda Train.. I think it is over? and I'm not sure I saw the finale, or the finale wasn't very "final".. I'd love to see follow-up on where they went on to school (the seniors)
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Oregonguy
Member
02-12-2006
| Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 6:52 pm
on the finale Amanda got accepted into NYU.
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Angelicfairies2
Member
07-19-2004
| Sunday, June 15, 2008 - 12:26 pm
Oh that was the finale?? WOW I didn't even realize it lol
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