On a related note, the Insurgent-MCC linkage has been in the offing, but probably won’t last. Elements of the MCC have been trying to break into campus media for some time, and their ASUO setbacks in the last election have underlined their need for a media backing to their ASUO political efforts. With fiscal conservatives now squarely occupying the moderate mainstream, and well-represented by both the Commentator and the Emerald Editorial Board, the hard left needs to rally its troops.

I was lead to believe by some in the MCC that a new media outlet would emerge this year, specifically to get a handle on the ASUO debate which have been spiraling out of their control. Instead, it seems like they are trying to recruit the Insurgent to engage in the ASUO on their side… a media strategy that is fraught with shortcomings. Here’s a short list:

1- Nobody in the ASUO reads the Insurgent.
2- Nobody in the Insurgent knows anything about the ASUO.
3- The Insurgent (like us) won’t be able to print in a timely fashion, and (unlike us) doesn’t have a blog. Primitivism has its downsides.
4- The Insurgent is being run by an insufferable man-child who’s idea of effective media strategy is yelling “get on the democracy boat and vote” at people in the amphitheater.
5- All of the crap that the Insurgent writes that’s not about the ASUO will be associated with the MCC and its representatives.
6-Don Goldman.

Feel free to list any of the other 30 million plus reasons that the Insurgent will never be effective on campus. Sorry, my worthy adversaries, but this is about as good of an idea as “Hey guys, let’s get Schwoeffermann to be our ‘Media Mole’” was last year.
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