FSView Shuts Down After 107 Years
It’s been a long road, but FSU’s second-best non-affiliated newspaper is finally shutting its doors. While many FSU students attempted to mend their morals and exercise their school spirit by supporting local journalism, many were filled with glee at the recent announcement that the FSView and Florida Flambeau would be hanging up their coats and heading out. This comes right on the heels of a controversial (transphobic) and underwritten (poorly sourced, included transitional phrases thought to be left in the fourth grade) article regarding Lia Thomas. Those empty, knocked-over newspaper holders at HCB are a thing of the past now, left to be taken over by nature and skateboarders.
“Good riddance. I’m just shocked people heard about the controversy within the FSView, because, like, who even read it?” started Paige Smalls, a Florida State sophomore. “No one cares enough to create that drama. It must have been started internally in order to get more readers. The editors probably thought: ‘What’s the most inflammatory, disturbing, bigoted thing we could let someone write? People will have to at least click on the headline.’ It’s unfortunate that it only made students realize they had never actually seen the FSView homepage before.”
“It wasn’t a scheme at all,” said the editor of the “Views” section of the FSView, as he twirled his long mustache. “I don’t really know what passes my desk, ever. Most of the time they’re too hard to read. The article Bitchini wrote, though? Easy. It was so simple in its hatred, ignorance, and vocabulary that I had to let it through. What is news for, if not for making people angry and spreading hatred that will make members of an already marginalized group feel even more unsafe? Any publicity is good publicity. VIVA LA VIEW!”
Bye-bye to the FSView! While we’re sure that there are plenty of writers on your staff that are wonderful people, there’s at least one that we disagree wholeheartedly with. Regardless, it’s certainly a feat that an article ending with “in conclusion” was able to pass through anyone’s hands. So, in conclusion, April Fools!