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Friday Failure: Journalists Who Won’t Vote
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Padmini Mangunta
Most of us have a love/hate relationship with the media…sometimes we love it, sometimes we hate it (and sometimes I love to hate how I’m a part of it). Still, one of the fundamentals of most democratic societies are the voices that speak to us under the banner of the free press, and I’d maintain…
Innocent Until Proven Guilty — Is This Still the Case?
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Padmini Mangunta
I was reading a CNN article about the 4 young men falsely accused of rape at Hofstra University; unsurprisingly, they described the experience as ‘traumatic’. Well, yes, to say the least! Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not speaking out against rape victims who speak up — all too often, their voices are heard with…
If Obama Calls Kanye A Jackass Off The Record, Does It Make A Sound?
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hfields
It does if Terry Moran (Moron?) tweets it. So, the civility debate rages (ironically) on. And as everyone’s buzzing, the president’s now caught up in it, having remarked off the record in a CNBC interview that he thought Kanye West was a jackass after Kanye’s Taylor Swift-boating stunt at the VMAs. ABC reporter Terry Moran tweeted…
Do We Need To Be Shocked (Or Grossed) Out Of Our Sugar Habit?
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hfields
Public health announcements: they make me vastly uneasy. And none more so than the new NYC anti-soda campaign, which actually just makes me vastly queasy: Do we really need some in-your-face ad agency terrifying us with PSAs à la the text-messaging teenagers car crash video that was burning up the internet last week? Personally, I think ads like these are…
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