Contemplating Media & the First Amendment
Not many headlines I see nowadays shock me. Given our current political climate and the shenanigans of Trump, few stories are surprising. However, scrolling through the notifications on my phone, an ABC News article left my jaw on the floor. This is what I saw. Trump calls for death penalty for NYC terror suspect, considers... Continue Reading →
A syllabus from a Duke University class on hedge funds stated that staffers of the student paper, The Chronicle, are not allowed to take the class. Lecturer Linsey Lebowitz Hughes, who teaches "Inside Hedge Funds," at Duke, put the message after a warning that students were forbidden to record guest speakers. The Chronicle found that Hughes had been... Continue Reading →
"Confidentiality means nothing if a third party can reasonably access whom a journalist has been talking to through their phone logs, contacts, lists, e-mails, texts or by working out who else was in a certain location at a certain time." (22) In Journalism After Snowden, the text discusses the concept of privacy and lack thereof.... Continue Reading →
There’s nothing controversial about cake, right? Wrong. I almost wrote about Richard Spencer again, but then came across this article on the polemical potential of everyone’s favorite birthday confection. Except the cake in question this time is actually for a wedding, and is contentious enough to fuel a Supreme Court case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado... Continue Reading →
The image of a woman on a bicycle has caused a lot of buzz recently. Specifically, the woman who was photographed giving the middle finger to Trump’s motorcade while pedaling beside it. A BBC article came out on November 6, stating that the woman had been fired from her job because she made this gesture... Continue Reading →
Since the disgustingly large number of detailed allegations of Harvey Weinstein's sexual assaults have come into light- this has become a catalyst for men and women in the Entertainment industry. Actresses and actors are finding the strength to take down and call out their gruesome abusers. There have been allegations against House of Cards Kevin Spacey, That... Continue Reading →
Last Thursday, a four hundred page tax plan was released, and this plan includes a lot more than merely tax regulation. The plan includes language that frames fetuses and embryos as “unborn children”, which has the potential to threaten women’s rights to control our own bodies. It also does away with the adoption tax credit,... Continue Reading →
As election day draws to a close and the results are coming out, I am beginning to reflect on what a crazy election season it has been. As an intern for the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, I have been on my toes all semester. Walking for miles around the state, knocking on hundreds doors and... Continue Reading →
In Journalism after Snowden the authors begin to talk about the reaction to Edward Snowden releasing classified information. Before Snowden told the world about the capabilities of the NSA and other organizations there were largely two theories. The first being that; government organizations are only collecting information from a specific group of people, in order to investigate... Continue Reading →
Student reporters from Dougherty Valley High School in California's San Ramon Valley Unified School District are fighting to unseal court documents and a supposedly controversial student video. The video was posted on Twitter by a student running for a student government position, and supposedly depicts the student being abducted by fictional terrorist. The video uses repeated... Continue Reading →
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