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Originally posted by gphiangel624
I want to know the real reason why this woman is so interested in uncovering all the bad things about sorority life, specifically NPC sorority life, and cannot focus at all on the good.
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because she went in "expecting" to see the normal affirming girl stuff and "saw" awful stereotypes as being reality, so she had to "expose" the "truth" behind sorority life, and that just doesn't include sisterhood and positive stuff, because that isn't "realistic" enough.
plus it doesn't sell.
i kind of feel like she's being an instigator in some aspects, because i had never even heard some of the rumors/speculations/stereotypes she talks about having heard and then witnessed before reading summaries/excerpts of her book.
if she honestly thought going into it that sororities were a positive thing, and just social organizations, then why would she go through all the trouble/effort to get the "behind the scenes" sorority experience?
generally journalists go into this type of endeavor knowing what route/angle they're going to take it, and so i just don't buy the "suprised at what i witnessed" act.
also, i've seen that she thinks NPHC sororities are more what she thinks greek orgs should be like. If this is true, and she had such a bad experience with the NPCs, then why didn't she follow one of the NPHC orgs, and write a book about enjoying greek life, and thinking it is purposeful? because she obviously has respect for those orgs, so i guess she just felt better about writing about groups she has no respect for instead.
one thing i've learned in my journalism classes is to not let your opinion/feeling about something get in the way of what you are writing if you are trying to present facts and write a credible story in a report/news style. instead she went the sensationalized op/ed route and presented it as fact, without seriously stressing her opinion weighed heavily on those "facts".
the people who use this type of journalism aren't termed muckrakers for no reason. she's just a muckraker hell bent on showing a negative side of NPC groups. the question, however, is why?
ETA: I forgot to say this before, I also think this book is going to encourage waaaaaaaaay more negative press coverage of greek life. if it becomes a popular best seller, a lot of papers/magazines/shows are going to hop on the greek bashing bandwagon.