The New York Times Thursday Style section never fails to examine cultural issues of greatest consequence. Today, they took a good, hard look at the Evite, specifically the way people decline them. The thrust of the article is that it has changed the nature of the RSVP, making a private communication public. But it contains this clever gem that reeks of an a clever editor drop-in:

And while some people simply refuse to respond to Evite invitations, countless others find themselves composing clever detailed responses that require so much effort, they end up R.S.V.-Peeved.

Ah yes, even assistant copy editors get their moment in the sun.
I’m sure you can understand that we here at Culture Warrior, we have a robust social schedule. And it’s true that we often find ourselves feeling as though we must explain why we can’t attend “Thursday Thursday goes Greek,” or some other such occasion. From now on we’re going to do like Nancy Reagan and Just Say No.

Oh, man. What’s the world coming to? What kind of world do we live in when we can’t trust the journalists whose work we never read in newspapers or whose broadcasts we ignore while watching the Heroes marathon on TV?

I mean, what’s this about graduate journalism students at Columbia cheating on their final exams? Editor and Publisher says that about 200 students enrolled in a class titled “Critical Issues in Journalism” have to attend a special session. If they don’t show up, they fail.

While graduate school is likely an option for us Culture Warriors, we find it tough to believe that anyone has to really try to cheat when

[t]he exam was an open-book, take-home exam in which students had 90 minutes to write a few essays.

By the way, a core part of the class dealt with journalism ethics.

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We weren’t around three days ago to bring this gem to your attention, so take my word for it that we would have. Err, or I was out of town, drinking mostly, and just now saw it. But either way, here it is. Somebody over at the Times style section clearly got yelled at about not having enough content recently, which is the is the only explanation or this hardhitting masturbatory piece of journalism filler.

It’s not cool to go out on Saturday nights. The New York Times is reporting this. And They included a picture to illustrate the kind of people who do go out on Saturday nights:

For status-conscious New Yorkers, Saturday has become synonymous with hordes of pleasure dilettantes wearing gelled hairstyles and quaffing Red Bull, creating hourlong lines at clubs that city dwellers may line up for on Thursday or even Monday, but will not get within five stretch-Hummer lengths from on Saturday.

Oh, Snap! More after the jump.

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