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Show 4 •, Monday, November 26,2007 OPINION www.dailyutahchronicle.com VW YOU 4^fc THAT SALU?i I F TH^Y WIN... 1T4- CUZ O F UTAH HAP VT! TOTAU.Y HA? IT I 6 0 N N A VVINI \ AT U5A4T Hollywood has flothing without its prized writers jloated with mulled wine and green vital. You can't do much in Hollywood |bean casserole, it would have been without money, but without an idea you "nice to spend my holiday weekend do even less. sprawled in front of Forty-four hour-long the television. Undramas and 21 sitcoms may get the exe in fortunately, my TiVo December because the queue is looking T AIIRPM studios refuse to acpretty dismal these 7, • w knowledge the changing days. Of course, I MUELLER landscape of media Like have a stockpile of most disputes in Hol"Masterpiece Thelywood, this has less to atre11 and "Battlestar _ ^ ^ _ ^ _ do with the plight of the Galactica," but I starving artist than with the resistance of never thought it would come to that. autocratic media moguls to embrace the Now entering its third week, the digital revolution. writers' strike in Hollywood has forced the cancellation of most worthwhile - Currently, writers receive next to nothprogramming on TV. "The Office" shut ing from DVD sales and literally nothing down production after one week, and for downloads from sites such as iT\ines. nightly broadcasts such as "Late Night The Alliance of Motion Picture and Telewith Conan O'Brien" _ vision Producers is lookand "The Daily Show ing to keep it that way. I with Jon Stewart" fell guess audiences will just Jtudio executives and learn into reruns almost imto live with vintage mediately. Leno while these primethe public at large must The Writers Guild time billionaires wait out of America and its finally confront the reality the Internet fad. subsequent union leadPro-WGA sentiment is ers halted production that the most undereven spreading into the after the group became political realm, with news I in talks with appreciated segment of writers from CBS threatento walk out on their the entertainment industry ing parent corporations. This profits. So, with the could potentially derail the might be its most vital. creative well suddenly next Democratic presidentapped, television and tial debate, with no one even some movie productions have come around to write questions for candidates to • to a virtual standstill. The release of the ignore or misinterpret. Hillary Clinton was movie adaptation of Angels and Demons, quick in pledging not to cross.picket lines : 'rjfequel to that dime-store romance novel, and the others soon followed suit. -,<-Whepa Vinci Code, has been delayed more While more than 10,000 lower-level ,^&iaa a year because of lingering issues workers in the industry stand idle, feary;wj£h the script. ing for their own livelihood, negotiations ""'-"' ^ t h economic losses estimated at $21 are set to resume this week. Hopefully, \oh each day the strike progresses, the Alliance can take a moment away ]to executives and the public at large from being self-congratulatory social jffinally confront the reality that the progressives to end a labor dispute over bunder-appreciated segment of the pennies on the dollar. ainment industry might be its most letters@chronicle.utah.edu LETTERS TOTHE EDITOR Just because you did unto others. doesn't mean the rest of the U will Editor: This is a response to Lindsey Sine's column ("Do unto others...," Nov. 22) that appeared in the Thanksgiving edition of the Deseret Morning News. • First of all, it's unfortunate that your newspaper staff was treated so poorly by some BYU students. I agree that those students were not living their religion, with their rudeness and dirty looks. It was also considerate of you to encourage the disappointed boy at the dance. Now, are you going to wear a BYU shirt, walk across the U campus and write a column about the treatment you receive? Or does objective journalism not apply to the Chrony staff? You criticized BYU because one girl was rude to one boy who asked her to dance. You implied that a U girl would never, ever be rude to a boy. Having attended more / • ' ? * • ' • * from the truth. I am often at the BYU camYou said, "These 36 pages feature the work pus, and I know that generally male and feof the best journalists and designers* tfie/'. male BYU students do not look as prudish,* University of Utah has to offer. If yoii haver: and out of style as your picture represented;; any comments or suggestions, pleas,e lei fos-.:I also know that many Utah students dress know so next year's staff is equipped.to.do conservatively and do not have tattoos. even better" (Rivalry Guide, Nov. 22). V; ;• •;"•' Why such an effort to spit on BYU—even If this is an honest invitation, then I-will,5 i to the extent of misrepresenting the truth?: give an honest evaluation. I am a BYU.friri . I also saw something in the paper that and member of The Church of Jesus 'Christ > looked similar to a CTR ring, but it stood for of Latter-day Saints. I read your paper coyr "Choose the Red." I agree that this is not a er to cover. There were moments of,gdb<l_.-' grievous crime, but few would argue that it journalism, but all in all, 1 was amazen^at • is not an intentional disrespect to the LDS the pure hatred and disrespect that'yOur. Church. This is only a sampling of the hajournalists showed toward BYU and; the" tred and disrespect in the 36 pages. .; LDS Church. •'•<4:";:;''P ' After reading the paper, I didn't even want • There's the column from Ryan Shattu^c," to go to the game (I did have a ticket). If ha-. who admittedly has no unbiased bone ^in) tred is what it is all about, then I don't even; his body. Another columnist, NicholasvPapV •". care who wins. Your paper took all the fun pas, said that those w h o root for BYU -ever,,, out of it for me. I think there are good rivaleven when they are not playing Utali, .are* ries in the country that also involve a great not true Utah fans and that a true Utah fan degree of mutual respect. Why can't'we have must despise every game BYU wins, "there that? v . • v is the article comparing the dress codes of . -;, , . JayAdamson the two schools, which is obviously very far -^; f -..'••' Draper, Utah E d i t o r : '•"••'; '"•• nesty will always be the very best political policy estimated 40 percent of Americans admit to doing it at least once—I could accept a president who had previously smoked pot. It's been one of those things where as long as they were a good candidate and no longer took part in it, I could deal with the leader of the free world having that in his or her past. But how do I navigate my feelings toward hard drug use and presidential viability? Some people think that a drug is a drug no matter what, while others distinguish marijuana from the pack because of its perceived harmlessness. I do distinguish it. Cocaine is far more dangerous than marijuana. ' The Chrony's disrespect killed the BYU-Utah rivalry for me this year rugs and the White House ''hen I used to think of the president of the United States, I never thought abbtit drugs. Then one day I heard (tbSft phrase, "I did not inhale," and even hi my adolescent state, t laughed as I thought to myself, ' ^ ' a h , right!" ' J'SKice that moment, the preserfCjeof drugs in the Oval Office has developed to the point of President Bush neither denying nor confirming his past use of cocaine and presidential candidate Barack Obama bpfenly admitting using marijuana and cocaine in his younger years. ; j n t h e past, I've always thought that because of its borderline legality and widespread use—an than my share of U dances and activities with LDS sororities while at the U, I can attest that such an implication is laughably absurd. Based on the actions of three people on your newspaper staff, you say that "people from the U really know how to treat a stranger." Thousands of BYU fans who have attended competitions at Rice-Eccles Stadium and the Huntsman Center could tell you. differently. Thank you for reminding me why I quit reading The Chrony during my last two years at the U. I'm waiting for your response to my letter, Sister Sine, but I won't hold my breath! - P.S. Why is the Chrony staff so obsessed with BYU's dress code? You don't go to BYU, so it doesn't affect you! Why do you care? , . . ; . .•-•.._ Craig Larson ! •[ U Alumnus, '90 LINDSEY SINE You can overdose on coke, and you can transmit life-threatening diseases by sharing the needles used to injectcocaine. When in the history of marijuana has anyone ever overdosed on it? But I digress—the point really shouldn't be to nitpick differences between one drug or another. The point should be in asking whether ''"•-•" •; •"• ^ : . ; : or not Obama's past use of drugs makes him any less qualified to be president. To be fair, I think it makes Obama more human than the candidates who keep the skeletons in their closets well hidden. Some would question the mental state of someone willing to put themselves in such an unsafe position by using cocaine. But on the same pretense, we could call into question anything from the practice of unsafe sex to not washing one's hands after a trip to the bathroom. When it comes down to it, everyone, including Obama, has something in his or her past that he or she is not proud of and no longer takes part in. He could have lied about it, but he told us the truth: Perhaps we should be optimistic enough to believe in the possibility that people can do bad things and then change for the better. letters@chronicle.utah.edu * for The Chronicle.' Contact Lindsey Sine for more into. ; lsine@chronideMtah.edu |
