Back when I was the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, we used to reprint the freshman issue every year. Just slap on a new editorial with the same contents and update the dates in the agenda on the back, and otherwise just verbatim reprint last years issue.

I don’t know what got me thinking of this… was it the recent articles about “Black Friday is going to break all records,” the articles about “Bohemian Rhapsody number one on the Top2000,” the “Boo-hoo Zwarte Piet,” the “Britmas decorations are up too early this year,” or the “Beaujolais Nouveau has arrived” articles? I dunno? Perhaps the sure-to-be-pending articles about “credit card records for Britmas” articles, or the “January sale starts too early” and “illegal fireworks still a thing and dangerous” articles tightly squeezed in between the innovative “Britmas burglaries still a thing” write-ups and the “this many hands and eyes were blows up during New Year’s,” or the “how to lose weight” articles sure to see the light of day in early January?

At least we were unpaid students, who were either soon-to-be drunk, on the way back from being drunk, or currently drunk during the “writing process.” What is the excuse for the “serious media”?

Can’t we just have a war or something, so they are at least forced to write something new?