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It's @timmytyper. I agree, I love writing and would love to be a journalist if I had the chops for it. It's a shame that journalistic integrity rarely exists anymore. When I was reading the article, I just sensed that he didn't have an open mind at all while writing this. Why else would he focus on how the girls started a fire and took pictures of it or how many followers they have, besides to make them look like stereotypical dumb, conceited cheerleaders? I can't believe that was their cover piece or that the title was "Blood, Sweat and Cheers" when he hardly mentioned any of the blood and sweat that the girls put in.Can you message me or post his twitter? I'd love to point out this editor that his journalist sucks bc he didn't even accurately get his "history" of cheerleading right. It started at Princeton and "officially" became an organized sport in 1898 via Johnny Campbell (University of Minnesota)...and in 1903 the first "cheer" fraternity was born. Oh, and they were primarily called yell squads in the beginning. I HATE HATE HATE the way journalism has become. No fact checking, embellishing stories, adding "fluff" in place of actual quality writing, out and out making things up, playing into stereotypes, and did I mention no fact checking? It takes all of FIVE minutes to look something up on the internet (using Google Scholar might I add, not just regular google). My grandmother (an editor and reporter for over 30 years) is somewhere rolling in her grave. It's inexcusable that an editor supports his "writer" (I'm not going to even dignify calling him a journalist), when his writer has such a blatant disregard for the basics of journalism 101.
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