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The New Underground Newspaper |
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by Ken Layne via Mike Lehman
(No verified email address) |
17 Apr 2001
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Guerilla High School Reporters Fulfill Web's Promise
For the full story, follow the link at the bottom.
Please note that the IMC site is here to use for local students. |
Let that serve as a disclaimer for the following tale,
which was shaken from the back of my skull thanks
to this week's terrific articles on a smart-aleck high
school kid and his information assault on Official
Student Newspapers. Sergio Bichao, a 16-year-old
junior at New Jersey's Hillside High, has turned his
teachers and principal into quivering bags of nerves
thanks to his hilarious monkey wrench of an
underground newspaper, DaHiller, which he started
online after the sanctioned paper ("The Hiller")
censored his political columns.
If I ran a publishing house, Bichao would have a
$100,000 advance and a national lecture tour to spread
his story to all the young punks curious about this
nation's deeply underused Freedom of Speech. Because at a time when
teen-agers only make the news when they shoot up the school, strip on national
teevee or have more sex than their Prozac-addled parents, Bichao is a reminder
of teen-aged adrenaline's grand possibilities. His work - and the work of
thousands of other guerilla-student publishers - is the real New Media
explosion. He doesn't care about Michael Kinsley or David "CEO" Talbot or any
other Professional Media windbags. Just look at DaHiller's mission statement to
see his idols: Gutenberg, Tom Paine, James Madison and Matt Drudge. (Al
Gore is thanked, in jest, for inventing the Internet.) |
See also:
http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm/request/551/
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