Posts Tagged ‘ Tyler Riggs ’

Salt Lake City radio DJ is very social media-savvy

Salt Lake City radio DJ is very social media-savvy

Salt Lake City alternative radio DJ Cory O’Stuart has a complete grasp on modern social media, which he uses to promote his station’s contests, sponsors, and his own “all-request” show on weeknights. O’Stuart, who works at a real radio station, not one of the fake internet ones at school that anyone can do, receives ratings...
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Obama in hot water again after comparing Chinese to the Borg

February 2, 2010
By Rick Gatewood, Five-Tool Editor
Obama in hot water again after comparing Chinese to the Borg

President Barack Obama was peppered with criticism today shortly after wrapping up a speech on foreign relations at Utah State University, where he explained to students and media that the Chinese “are a lot like the Borg on Star Trek.” Obama, who was replying to a question from USU marketing sophomore Marty Short, pointed out...
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Unconventional Wisdom: No Unconventional Wisdom this week

October 22, 2009
By Rick Gatewood, Five-Tool Editor

In the greatest blow to journalistic excellence since a nazi bullet took Ernie Pyle’s life, The Truant is not going to make fun of Harry Caines’ Unconventional Wisdom column this week. This might lead one to believe that The Truant would not be making fun of Harry Caines this week. Wrong. Last Friday night, Dickhouse...
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Unconventional Wisdom – Harry the Philosopher

Unconventional Wisdom – Harry the Philosopher

If a philosophy department is eliminated from a college and no one raises a voice in protest, did it ever actually exist? Nope. But I’d wager they’d write self-impressed diatribes espousing the virtues and necessity of philosophy. Shhh. If you’re quiet, you can actually hear the sound of Provost Raymond Coward getting an idea. There have been many departments...
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The Truant’s 100th Article Awards Issue

The Truant’s 100th Article Awards Issue

Ed. note – The Truant staff is finally starting to sober up from their annual new years eve bash and we’d like to take some time as a staff to recognize those who were exceptional in the year of 2008. This article in our magazine also represents the 100th article we have published, not...
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Truant staffers destroy promising broadcast career of good-hearted late-night DJ who gave them a shot at the big-time, don’t even get to get into any of their really good material

KVNU STUDIOS – Three handsome Truant editors were yanked from the air moments into their appearance on KVNU’s For The People election night coverage. The extremely important journalists had hardly even begun to shill for their Emmy Award-Winning web site when a red phone rang, and For The People host Tyler Riggs put a...
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