The Riverdale Press: A Theoretical Analysis

Sometimes living at a certain community doesn’t make you a part of it. Part of the reason can be that one can be so isolated from it, it feels like one lives somewhere else. For example, I live in Riverdale, a quiet community in the Bronx. Not that I don't like the community, I feel like I live in a safe area, but nothing even remotely interesting seems to occur in the Dale. When I leave my apartment to catch the bus that takes me to college, I walk by a couple of newspaper racks and never even pay attention to which newspapers they dispend nor would I know if they’re local or not. I may sound like a very oblivious person, but it's because of this mindset that wonder...Can something amusing happen in Riverdale?
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In terms of why this appears to be the newspaper’s point of view, the best example I can give is an article that involved the High School I graduate from. Earlier in September of this year, The Press uploaded an article to their online platform . It was bound to get some attention in the community, considering it had a title that was simply eye-catching (while I was waiting for my bus, I overheard someone talking about the article; she said: “since when do you hear the word “drugs” in Riverdale? It is supposed to be so safe here! Needless to say I rolled my eyes and blocked the conversation). Reading that article I was quite offended, due to the fact that the writer made it seem as if the High School was to blame for teenagers consuming heroin or cocaine before even considering to include that parent supervision plays a role in that. The writer seemed to attack the school, the staff and the teens in a way that sounded like a grandmother’s sermon. I can deduce that, because of the content they distribute to the public, you wouldn’t expect a teenager from the area to read it, unless said teenager is included in an article which, quite frankly, doesn’t happen very often unless it is something