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October 13, 2011
Following a fairly disappointing segment about the Occupy Wall Street movement, Jon Stewart recently gave the occupiers some decent press. On October 5th, Stewart thoroughly slammed Fox News for the hypocritical coverage the gave to the 99 Percenters. The segment calls out Fox News for championing the Tea Baggers Party for the exact same reasons […]
October 3, 2011
At the planning meeting for the Occupy Baltimore event, which is being held to demonstrate solidarity with the Occupy movements internationally, a Baltimore Sun reporter was asked to leave. The reporter was polite enough to announce herself to the facilitation team when she entered. The facilitators then asked for a vote to determine if the […]
October 1, 2011
As the Occupy Wall Street protest stayed strong well through day 12, the public was still waiting for Jon Stewart to comment. It’s not a stretch to think that the socially and politically conscious comedian would support the movement and give it the proper media coverage it deserves. In fact, I personally expected The Daily […]
September 26, 2011
While Occupy Wall Street, a demonstration sparked (but not led by) AdBuster’s Magazine, has been in swing for over a week now, the main stream media only recently began covering the event. And the coverage has been exclusively about the police brutality against the protesters. This subject does warrant serious media attention, since passive protesters […]
June 7, 2011
As I struggled for hours to untangle a massive ball of chains and charms knotted together by the lovely consumer population of Forever 21, I couldn’t help but feel intensely interested in the destiny of these many necklaces. Each loose necklace was a little victory, until at last the entire ball was no more and I […]
April 26, 2011
Fist-Swinging Recap–David Sanger Here’s my first ever podcast about the David Sanger talk. Dont be to harsh =]
April 20, 2011
The Telegraph reported last year that researchers at the University College of London found after studying a pool of 92 adults that the amygdala, associated with fear, is larger in conservatives, while the anterior cingulate, often associated with courage, is smaller. The theory follows that we have proven that political differences are an inherent result […]
April 19, 2011
On April 14, 2011, New York Times reporter David Sanger gave a talk at Goucher College about the Obama administration and the rapidly changing conflicts in the Middle East, offering a concise summation of American interests in sites of political upheaval. Sanger elucidated American ideological hypocrisy in regards to the “Arab Spring,” shedding light on […]
April 10, 2011
The Baltimore Sun reports that the Maryland House has voted in favor of a bill that will grant in-state college tuition to undocumented (illegal) students. These students will have to meet several criteria, including attending high school in Maryland for at least three years. This week, the bill will return to the Senate for another […]
July 13, 2012
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