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Ditch the trash, keep the ashbin
DAN AKINBOSEDE
Contributor
By now, most of you reading this are shall I
say “au courant” with the incident involving a
member of the Osgoode community writing an
open letter of complaint to other class members
regarding an issue of classroom etiquette. This
act that has since been fodder for derision
not just within the Osgoode community,
but externally as well. A once respectable
daily publication with a geographical circulation akin to its moniker felt this incident was worthy of national, dare I say,
global attention. Surely there were other
stories of consequence to report. To be
in the position of newspaper editor ought
to entail qualifications in excess of being
able to maintain a steady pulse and tying
the occasional shoelace. At the very least
the position ought to require an appreciation for the term “journalistic discretion”.
Sadly, and under the guise of reporting
a reported story, many other broadcast
mediums followed suit, running with what
was clearly a non-story. Televised reports
featured reputable personalities projecting
specious objectivity, laced with masochistic and despicable innuendo. Anyone can
write anthologies sufficiently large to fill
a decent-sized library on the unmistakable decline of journalistic standards and
the proliferation of the industry with effete
individuals.
This article is about the rapidly changing
status quo of what constitutes decorum
in shared public spaces. You see, while
most may (and should) disagree with the
medium employed by the complainant,
the message is not without some salience.
When it comes to public spaces, the dicta
“good fences make good neighbors” and “good
neighbors build good fences”, are personally
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