Confessions of a College Journalist – Why aspiring writers should be allowed to fail in private. By Bryan Curtis — As someone who wrote for both high school and college newspapers before there was an Internet I found this point (cited below) to be an interesting observation. The longer your opinions are in the public domain and ready for searching, the more contradictions will be found. Nobody fully understands what this means to the future of journalism. But it means something!

College newspapers have gone digital, and with that we’ve lost something vital about college journalism: the privilege to write wretchedly, irresponsibly, and incoherently in relative privacy. “When you screw up now, it’s Google-able,” says Christopher Buckley, the editor of Forbes FYI and a veteran of the Yale Daily News. “In the old days, you just had to wait three days and no one would remember.”