The Magnificent Mission Statement of Rodney Jingle-Jangles

By Himal Ramji

This purpose of this post is just to tell you – my loving audience – how I will be writing my posts on this fine blog and what they’ll be about.

The purpose of our blog (Writer Than You) is to consume media, digest it, analyse it and then communicate it to our audience. Hopefully my posts won’t be as obsessively optimistic or stupidly cynical as most of the media ‘reviews’ I’ve read in my young and tender life. Apparently we’re blogging for journalism students and what students need isn’t another generation telling them what to think or feel or do. What we need is the views of our peers because, let’s face it, we follow what our friends say a lot more closely than we do with the words of our lecturers or tutors or parents. We need to thoughts of people we can relate to. Our analyses of the plethora of media in this world won’t be dull and dour like a lot of what we read nowadays. No – it will be spectacular!

We’re just students. We’re journalism students. And this is a blog. It’s not as if we’re going to censor ourselves in the same way many journalists are forced to – if you don’t believe me, feel free to read a newspaper and find something witty and riveting. And that’s exactly how the posts of Writer Than You will be written. They will be witty and they will be riveting. We’ll draw the reader in, we’ll toy with their minds but, in the end, they will benefit from the majesty that is Writer Than You.

Importantly, there will be none of this conformist, self-preserving, commercial retardation. We are not businessmen or scientists paid by big corporations. Instead, we are the only real voice in this world simply because we have nothing to lose or gain (apart from our DP’s and potential degrees, but that’s a topic for another time). We will tell the truth. We will hide none of our thoughts. We will represent and we will converse. Nothing can stop this blog.

This purpose of this post is just to tell you – my loving audience – how I will be writing my posts on this fine blog and what they’ll be about.

We’ll be covering movies, music, newspaper articles, magazine articles and a whole range of media topics. We’re going to be honest and critical with a flash of eloquence, wit and flair. There will be arguments, agreements, commendations, tears and possibly death threats. This blog will appeal to your senses and force you to think outside that box you’ve been forced to inhabit. I welcome to you all to the phenomenon that is Writer Than You.