The 667er: 667's weekly newspaper

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The 667er is a weekly 667 magazine, published and founded by Akbar, who is also its Editor-in-Chief.

History

The 667er was founded by Akbar Le Grey, as a weekly magazine for the members of 667. He remains its publisher and Editor-in-Chief. He made a thread about it, offering jobs to anyone interested. An avalanche of PMs reached him. The columnists featured in the 667er's first edition (published September 18th, 2005) were: Akbar Le Grey, PJ, George, Ennui, James, Sixteen and Derik. The 667er has had many occasional contributors, as well as a few faithful journalists who have submitted an article nearly every week.

Although sometimes slightly controversial, mainly due to Akbar's editorials, the 667er has enjoyed a high degree of popularity on the forum, and is, by now, quite famous on a forum-wide scale.

In recent times, the 667er has declined in size. However, gradually it appears to be building back up to how it was in its glory days.

Features

A new edition of the 667er is published every Sunday in Chaotic Creativity. Only one feature that was published in the first edition of the 667er has remained constant to this day: the rant. Other than that, the following articles have been featured in the 667er at some time or the other during its history:

-J. writes stuff and no one ever reads it and that makes her sad. She doesn't see why she should continue writing if it never makes a difference. :(

- That thing Robert did (that thing Robert did)

- Jemima's unadvice column

- The interview (formerly done by Linda, then done by PJ for a while)

- A weekly aSoUE update (written by Sixteen; this column has fallen into disrepair since the Series finished)

-A weekly review of FF, CC, and AA, outlets of creativity (formerly written by Ennui. This column was only written for a few weeks.)

-WTF? (an editorial formerly written by Dupin. This column was only written for a few weeks.)

-Word up in da hood (A gossip column written by Charlotte for several weeks)

-Things you ought to know lest you evaporate (a rather morbid column started several weeks ago and written by Skeleton Key)

-The Subjective Flaneur (written by an anonymous female member. This column gives off spurts of news and opinions and prompts Tragedy to take action when he is slacking.)

-He writes confusing, pretentious stories now and then, and once contributed a satirical lede

-Polls (written by Grace for several weeks)

-Games (written by Ligeia for several weeks)

-whoami ran a game for a while where he asked the puzzling question: Who am (is) I (he)? His owl motif and love of animals and animal-related books left 667ers stumped.

-Whatever BSam is able to write in 10 minutes when woken up by Akbar on the day of publication.

-Editorials (written by Akbar whenever he has something to say)

Controversies

The 667er has often been considered controverisal, mainly due to editorials written by Akbar. Other columns and articles have also been considered risqué, and the 667er in general is seen as quite an opinionated magazine. Some of the more controversial editorials have been about swans, Dante, Best and Songbird. That last one is considered the largest scandal in 667er history.

The Songbird scandal

The 'Songbird scandal' is usually considered the most controversial thing to have happened to the magazine. It began after Songbird resigned due to Tragedy's unjust treatment of her as a moderator. Upon reading her empassioned soloiquoy, Akbar wrote a ranting, emotional editorial, blaming Tragedy and the mods for allowing this to happen. This editorial became quite scandalous. The supprorters of Songbird rallied around Akbar, seeing this as an oppurtunity to voice their opinions using the 667er. However, many people disagreed with their stance. The scandal continued for a week. After a week, however, swans contacted Akbar and Songbird; meanwhile, Songbird had returned to 667 as Lady Poe. On Swans' advice, Akbar conducted an exposé interview with Songbird to allow people to understand what truly happened. Songbird got her job back, and recieved the full benefits of moderator-ship for the first time. It was this event which truly highlighted exactly how influential the magazine was becoming; as the voice of the common 667ers, it represented both the media of 667 and the people of 667.

External links

Chaotic Creativity, where The 667er is published every Sunday.