The Lantern's Coverage of the Juicy Campus Shutdown Kind of Misses the Point

The Lantern's Coverage of the Juicy Campus Shutdown Kind of Misses the Point

With the recent shuttering of evil college gossip site, Juicy Campus (which I've always been rooting for), student papers and college sites all around the country have taken it upon themselves to cover the event in detail. But OSU’s student paper, The Lantern, went above and beyond, and the result?


Here’s how the article opens:


"Jackie Kingston is the biggest s--- EVER."


"I know for a fact she got implants, she told me about them."


"The way she dresses when she goes out make me nauseous. Honestly hunny, are you that desperate? People see you as a sex icon and nothing else. keep [sic] snorting that coke, you'll get far. F--- you, you're worthless."


Now, I figured that they just made up some name to put there as a placeholder, since surely they wouldn’t actually repost legitimate first-and-last-name slander that used to be on a site that is now shut down and therefore can no longer inflict damage, right?


Uh, nope. Turns out Jackie Kingston is a real person, who has been maligned on Juicy Campus for awhile now. In addition to publishing some of the more harsh comments, they also have her picture and an interview with her.


Alright, so here’s the point where I’m going to turn my wrath right here from The Lantern to this attention thirsty girl, who agreed to be interviewed and have her name and picture printed about this whole fiasco. Some quotes:


"I first heard I was on Juicy Campus from a friend," Kingston said. "She called me and was like, 'Hey did you see that post about you?' And at that moment my heart dropped.”


"I find it so cowardly of these anonymous posters to sit behind their computers and write terrible things, but refuse to say a word to me when they see me," Kingston said.


"I feel like my life is under a microscope. Everything I do is discussed, everything about me is insulted. When I walk into public places and people look at me, I feel self-conscious and automatically assume I'm being gossiped about," she said.


Are you insane? Look, you may be a celebrity on OSU’s campus, but I’ll be damned if I’ve ever heard of you before, although after reading this article I sure have. And so will a lot of other people. People who are probably considering whether or not to hire you. You know why? Because now when you search for “Jackie Kingston” on Google now, this Lantern Article is on the first page of search results. No Juicy Campus rumor pages are anywhere to be found, seeing as you know, they shut down the site. I’m guessing this OTR article will turn up on the front page soon enough as well, but you know what honey, you've earned it.


Sure a potential employer might think, “oh this poor girl, she’s been slandered online.” But you have to know the majority of them are going to be wondering if you really do snort coke, how many people you’ve actually banged and how much your implants cost.


Look, I don’t know you Jackie, and I don’t know the degree of truth of any of these rumors (although usually rumors don’t start from nothing), but the way I figure it you have to be either A) exceptionally clueless or B) have a desperate need for attention to actually agree to have this article go to print. Sure you were famous at OSU and it was soooo hard being the pretty popular girl everyone hated, but when you graduate you could have forgotten all about that. Unfortunately, now you have articles like The Lantern’s and this one following you around on the internet FOREVER.


It may have sounded kind of like, you know, ~*totally awesome*~ to be interviewed by the paper, further entrenching your celebrity status on campus, but in your attention whoring you’ve lost sight of the long term, and mark my words you will eventually be sending e-mails to get this stuff taken down.


Best of luck Jackie. I think the implants looks pretty good.

 

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Anonymous
Libel is written defamation. Slander is spoken. Anything written on JuicyCampus deemed defamatory would be considered libel.

Just some friendly knowledge - as to make this article more accurate.
Posted 02/06/2009 11:48 PMReply
Anonymous
jealous girls bottom line. i think ur real hot Posted 02/07/2009 5:26 PMReply
Anonymous
so what''s your take on websites like poshsociety? that one turns students into local celebrities by saying positive things about them. Is there any difference if what is being said about you is good or bad? Posted 02/12/2009 1:25 PMReply

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