<p>Is there an Arts/Entertainment section in The Chronicle where movie reviews are written? And if no movie reviews are written, would it be difficult to have someone start a new column for movie reviews in the newspaper.</p>
<p>Yeah there is an Arts/Entertainment section and its called Recess. The section only runs once a week, but they do have movie reviews and a bunch of other stuff.</p>
<p>The Duke paper, from what I understand, is among the nations best and was featured on several news shows, with writers having appearred on Dateline, Fox News, and C-SPAN</p>
<p>Of course, much of the fame of many of its writers and columnists came due to their first-hand coverage and opinions on the Duke Lax, but it has given them a deal of national prominence</p>
<p>The Recess section is the arts and entertainment section, and they do carry out book and movie reviews. I stumbled upon it whle reading up on the Lacrosse situation. The movies are mostly independent movies and focus on local production, though it does have some national coverage.</p>
<p>You can check it out yourself at DukeChronicle.com or e-mail the editors</p>
<p>The Duke Lax thing didnt lead to prominence... The Chronicle is and already was considered one of the top College papers in the country... the Lax thing just led to recent press.</p>
<p>Yeah, but college newspaper staffs usually don't appear on national television. Of course they are considered one of the best publications. However, the recent television coverage of the Chronicle Flowers office suite was because of the Lacrosse incident (and some liberal bias stuff...)</p>
<p>While the Chronicle does a fine job with layout and has won multiple awards, I can promise you that there is a significant portion of the undergraduate population that can't stand the Chronicle. They have a rather large tendency to get things wrong and misquote people. I guess in that regard they are like real journalists... but while they get accolades from people outside the Duke community, administrators and students dislike the paper itself.</p>
<p>MegaConservative, please don't generalize. Plenty of students do like the Chronicle, myself included.</p>
<p>What generalization? I said, "a significant portion" - that implies a portion that does and a portion that doesn't. Additionally, there was so much glowing praise of the Chronicle it's necessary to tell the truth about differing sentiments within the community.</p>
<p>
[quote]
but while they get accolades from people outside the Duke community, administrators and students dislike the paper itself.
[/quote]
was the generalization I was referring to.</p>
<p>I stand by the comment a significant portion of the student population doesn't like their inaccurate reporting. Thus, I don't believe I generalized with regards to students. As for administrators, I think you can look no further than when Larry Moneta discussed tailgating and was interviewed but refused to do so through the Chronicle, saying "The Chronicle is not my paper. I would not communicate my thoughts on things through the paper and so I won't do so now." I think I have plenty of support for my aforementioned assertion and so will stand by it.</p>
<p>Next year's edit staff seems to be absolutely fantastic, though, so hopefully there'll be less of a misquote problem. I mean-- it happens in anything published. I've had friends who've been WAY out of context in their quotes, but it's not a bad paper because of it.</p>
<p>Yeah I like Ryan (next year's Editor-in-Chief) - I was interviewed by him a number of times when I was on DSG this year and he always knew what he was talking about and got his information right.... so here's to hoping!</p>
<p>I will agree that the Chronicle has truth and bias issues. Having worked with Duke Dining first semester, I can say confidently that the majority of the Chronicle's reporting on the Aramark contracting process was inaccurate, misleading, and on occasion flat out wrong. This was only partially because of the lack of transparency in the process of choosing a contractor.</p>
<p>I would be very hesitant to try to explain something through the Chronicle if I couldn't write the article myself.</p>
<p>That's not to say I don't read it - but I take it with about as much salt as I would Fox News. Too often, even beyond the dining issues, I've known the real story behind what an article was written on and noted much of the same inaccuracy. I rather like some of the Op/Ed writers, because at least they don't maintain a pretense of objectivity.</p>
<p>Well, its hard to say whats objective if you have your own angle on something...true with any sort of media</p>