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Media to Blame for Threats to Free Press?
How Our Private Life Became Our Personal Life
You may think that a private life and personal life are the same concept, but you would be incorrect. The age of the internet has completely diminished any sort of private life you may think you have. From public records, social media, and a quick internet search pretty much anyone can find out a lot... Continue Reading →
I Don’t Just Want the Tea, I Deserve It! (Are People Entitled Leaked Info?)
Where were you when the Ashley Madison leak happened? I remember where I was - in my room, watching a YouTube video about the breach. Hearing that 3.9 million users had their real names, addresses, and card information published after signing up for an extramarital-affair dating site was hilarious. Seventeen-year-old me did not understand hacking or... Continue Reading →
Private information is a news source too
We'd like to believe that ethics and morality are the founding pillars of good journalism, and in the grand scheme of things, I truly believe they are. But when leaked, private information becomes a journalist's only source, those moral pillars often seem to crumble. According to an article written for the Columbia Journalism Review, in... Continue Reading →
Populism, Likeability and “Celebrity Politics”
Last weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live featured a sketch titled “DNC Town Hall” which featured parodies of the 2020 Democratic candidates, and all of their portrayals seemed to have one thing in common. From Kamala’s (Maya Rudolph) now famous “that little girl was me” line to Beto O’Rourke’s (Alex Moffat) demonstration of his “8th... Continue Reading →
Even in Death We are Erased, Botham Jean and Reporting Bias.
I remember when the story broke, that a Black man had been murdered in his home by a white cop. For months it stayed in the back of my mind a man murdered in his own home and it being called everything but murder. And this past week came the trial, as a Black American... Continue Reading →
Our Election Coverage is Messed Up
To say the current state of our news is not handled for the current presidential election is, in my opinion, putting it lightly. Journalism has always played a vital role in the electability of presidential candidates. Not to say that it has been the only deciding factor but, as illustrated by Thomas E Patterson, the... Continue Reading →
Is it Treason or Are Your Feelings Just Hurt?
Finally, the words we have all been waiting for have been spoken: impeachment. Nancy, my darling, you’ve done it again. Good things come to those who wait. My main source, The Daily, has spent the last week talking about impeachment, what it means, how the whistleblower came forward etc. But I am mostly intrigued by... Continue Reading →
Trump Isn’t Taking The ‘Whistleblower’s’ Report Seriously; Should We?
On July 25, 2019, Trump reportedly asked Ukraine’s president, Zelensky, to investigate former Vice President, Joe Biden, and Biden’s son for political reasons. This past August, a member of the intelligence community filed a whistleblower complaint to the Intelligence Community Inspector General, regarding the July phone conversation between Trump and Zelensky. Politician, Nancy Pelosi, worked to... Continue Reading →
STEM Major Takes A Humanities Course: A Hot Take
"—the freedom of Speech may be taken away—and, dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter."From George Washington to Officers of the Army, 15 March 1783https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-10840 Soon after the Supreme Court decision of New York Times vs. Sullivan in 1964, Justice Brennan said, “At the time of the First Amendment was... Continue Reading →
Free Press Free Speech 