Taft Newspaper Review

Taft High School's newspaper, "Taft Today," was my least favorite newspaper that we have reviewed so far. I thought that the issue Taft sent to us was a very average paper compared to other school's papers we have seen and far below the standards of "The Beacon." While flipping through the pages of "Taft Today," I was most bothered by the layout and design of each page. Although Taft didn't use any online pictures or pictures taken by people outside of their newspaper staff, they overused graphics and drawings in their paper that made their paper look less polished and professional. Additionally, I thought the font choices, picture placement, and color scheme were poorly chosen and lowered the quality of the paper. I especially disliked the fact that in every article, any and every pronoun was bolded so that it stood out darker than the rest of the text around it. That decision doesn't really make sense to me and, again, reduces the quality of the paper as a whole. My least favorite part of the "Taft Today," however, was the comic on page eight. I thought that the comic used a very basic and unoriginal form of humor. Although some people might criticize Billy's "Casheu Jones" for using the same silly or "stupid" joke in each new comic, every time the joke is reused it becomes funnier and funnier. I didn't see any kind of originality that made the comic in Taft's paper funny or interesting and so I didn't enjoy reading it. Overall, I did not enjoy the "Taft Today" newspaper and I think that as a staff we are thoughtful enough not to make the decisions (mistakes) that Taft's newspaper staff made.