Bring local music back to the Picket!

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A number of local Shepherdstown bands will no longer be written about in the Picket, Shepherd University's own campus newspaper. The soul reason for this denial of print coverage? The affiliation with a local record label, who the editor-in-chief feels has recieved enough attention. For those bands who have never graced the pages of our campus newspaper, or never even so much have been mentioned in it's pages, this is a huge disappointment. After seeking promotion and local attention through this record label, we are denied that very thing by the campus press.

Whether you read the Picket or not, or could care in the slightest about what is printed and what isn't, this hurts local bands, and if you support them, then you should support this, as well.

This is a big, uninformed, and thoughtless policy made on the part of the Picket's staff, and we feel it should be changed. If you care for local music and want many of the great bands from Shepherdstown to be given the attention they deserve by their own campus newspaper, please join this group sign the petition below.

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Charles House
Bianca Stevens
Aaron May
- Comments
- However much I like fleetwood mac, they have national press coverage at their fingertips, why not write about local acts with WORLDS less in terms of press coverage. It's a campus comunity for crying out loud- these bands are part of that comunity and deserve the same attention as any act coming through.
Aaron May
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- However much I like fleetwood mac, they have national press coverage at their fingertips, why not write about local acts with WORLDS less in terms of press coverage. It's a campus comunity for crying out loud- these bands are part of that comunity and deserve the same attention as any act coming through.
Jonathan Slick
Meighan Young
- Comments
- Not reporting on local bands is absolutely ridiculous. That would be like the City Paper not reporting on Baltimore local bands because of Wham City.
jacob matz
- Comments
- please stop reporting on the latest fashion trends at shepherd, like the boys wearing scarves?! omg i cant believe it. start reporting on the amazing musicians that live in your town and go to your school.
joseph roberts
Katie Thomas
Dillon Hawkins
William Lauffer
Dan Jae Smith
Gisele Doucet
Garrett Perrella
krysten Elliott
melissa kincheloe
Paul Kessler
Andrew Ford
- Comments
- Shepherdstown's underground music scene is tremendously undercovered. And even if it weren't, local music is ALWAYS worth promoting. It is a struggle by itself trying to make a living doing music, let alone trying to make a living without press. The Picket is another potential news source for strapped-for-cash musicians unable to afford advertising space. Please cover local music in the Picket.
John Poole
Marlene Melendez
Tanner Haid
Brittany Judy
Lauren Monaco
BF Keefer
Christy Lynne Conrad
Brittany Bates
Patrick Malone
Kelly Iverson
Suzanne Reid
- Comments
- The campus paper is just that, a campus paper whose sole purpose should be to bring the school and community news of local and community events - regardless of their affiliation with a particular record label. This is revealing a bias in print and it's unethical.
Chloe Herrold
- Comments
- As a free source of news for poor college students, the Picket should reflect the interests of the people reading it. The local music scene could ALWAYS use more support; in a community that is widely appreciative of arts (musical and otherwise), the more coverage there is of local art the more support the artists will recieve from the community.
jeff birdsall
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- like, i just want to rock so hard
Sarah Dowden
- Comments
- В
Katie Godman
Lacy Lafferty
- Comments
- Damn Straight!
Elizabeth Boone
Thomas Appleby
Megan Bean
Jenna Zelkowski
Bethany Slick
Ashley May
Meredith Matherly
Luke L