The Booze News

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The Booze News
"Today's News ... Under the Influence"
Type Parody newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s)The Black Sheep
EditorAtish Doshi
Staff writers6
Founded2004
Headquarters1471 N. Milwaukee Ave,
Suite 3F
Chicago, Illinois 60642
United States
Circulation 100,000[ citation needed ]
Website

The Booze News is a satirical newspaper founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in February 2004 by Atish Doshi and Derek Chin. [1] The free paper, published weekly with a circulation of 20,000[ citation needed ], is written, edited and distributed by students at UIUC. Currently, The Booze News is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and continues to exist under The Black Sheep. [2]

Contents

Origins and expansion

According to co-founder Derek Chin, The Booze News was founded as a twelve-page paper in 2004. With innovative and controversial content the paper's popularity quickly grew among the University of Illinois student base, and as that popularity was further realized by the local advertisers, the paper expanded to twenty pages. The first campus expansion took place in 2005, as The Booze News began publishing a twelve-page issue at Illinois State University. [3] In 2006, The Booze News expanded further, and began distribution at three more schools, The University of Wisconsin in Madison, The University of Iowa in Iowa City, Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, University of Georgia in Athens, GA and the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. (The University of Wisconsin, Indiana University and University of Missouri issues are no longer in print.) In 2008 the parent company of The Booze News was dissolved. "The Booze News" remained for two years and now operates as "The Black Sheep.". [4]

Weekly content

Each week the student-writers at The Booze News produce several comedic articles that poke fun at life as a college students. Often the content consists of many one-shot satirical articles that comment on current campus occurrences, as well as one or two recurring columns that anchor weekly readership. For example, Volume 13, issue 3, [5] published on September 10, 2008, led with a one-shot article [6] parodying a hoax email [7] sent out by UIUC Chancellor Richard Herman, and contained two regular columns, a fake interview with UIUC football coach Ron Zook [8] and a sex-themed column, "Sex in the C-U". [9]

In addition to the weekly articles, The Booze News runs a rotating series of alcohol reviews, [10] CD reviews, [11] bartender interviews, drinking games, class-time games and celebrity interviews. [12]

Controversy

The Booze News often garners criticism for promoting underage drinking and binge drinking, [3] but co-founder Atish Doshi notes that "The paper is not for eight-year olds," [13] and "The students love it." [14]

In October 2008 The Booze News came under popular scrutiny for an article in its University of Missouri edition. The article in question was "Judging A Book By Its Cover". [13] The writer of the controversial article published a fictional interpretation of the plot of a children's book. Previous books used to for the "Judging a Book By Its Cover" series include, Elmo Pops In, The Box Car Children, The Hardy Boys, and The Little Engine That Could. Some of the older town's people were offended by the content. The incident garnered national attention from news media outlets such as CNN, [13] Fox News [15] and the Los Angeles Times . [16] T

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References

  1. ↑ "The Booze News - About Us". Archived from the original on December 11, 2008. Retrieved December 6, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Home". The Black Sheep. Retrieved April 28, 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Welcome to nginx". Archived from the original on April 8, 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2008.
  4. ↑ "The Black Sheep Online". Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved January 6, 2011.
  5. ↑ University of Illinois theboozenews.com [ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ "The Booze News - Regarding Greek Life on Campus". Archived from the original on September 17, 2008. Retrieved December 5, 2008.
  7. ↑ From Chancellor dailyillini.com [ permanent dead link ]
  8. ↑ "The Booze News - the Ron Zook Chronicles: Part III". Archived from the original on September 17, 2008. Retrieved December 5, 2008.
  9. ↑ "The Booze News - Handy Excuses for a Hickey". Archived from the original on September 17, 2008. Retrieved December 5, 2008.
  10. ↑ Alcohol review theboozenews.com [ permanent dead link ]
  11. ↑ CD Review theboozenews.com [ permanent dead link ]
  12. ↑ Interview theboozenews.com [ permanent dead link ]
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  14. ↑ "MU students angered by the Booze News - Columbia Missourian". Archived from the original on July 23, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2008.
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