Monthly Archives: July 2012

How Pictures Can Help and Hurt

We never think about the pictures we don’t see. Sometimes pictures are of gruesome content and sometimes they are of a beautiful subject. Either way pictures have the power to encapsulate all sorts of different emotions all at the same …

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Transparency results in stronger society

President Obama and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton have always remained extremely vocal about their support for the freedom of speech and free flow of information on the internet. They have both been quoted countless times defending the United State’s …

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A Decade of Being Able to ‘Google’

Before I turned fourteen in 2004, the year Google was first released to the public, I remember life being somewhat different. In the Pre-Google era, information wasn’t a “click away”– it was more like two-hundred clicks away and it usually …

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Serve the Public Good?

When I think of a wasteland, I think of a huge open space with minimal vegetation and barely any life.  A chairman of the Federal Communications Committee once compared American television programming to a “Vast Wasteland.”  In his ground-shaking speech, …

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How free the information should be?

With the disclosure of secret information about security, foreign and military policies of U.S government in Wikileaks people started questioning about all the information that is being hidden from the public for the last few years.

Questions about how secure …

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Six goals that have potential to guide mass-media regulatory decisions

Newton N. Minow discusses ways to keep TV and internet dynamic. Minow makes it apparent that public interest should be above everything. In order to do that he talks about six ways to build into our 21st century communications system.…

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See It To Believe It

The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in January 2010 killed an estimated 230,000 people and left 3 million people injured or homeless. The numbers are astonishing but does this portray what the quake really did?

Arielle Emmett’s article “Too Graphic?” …

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Google: The great aggregator of internet communication

As I sit here and write this article, I laugh at myself because I remember days before internet, before cell phones; when pay phones was the order of the day and you had to pay extra to make a long …

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The perfect storm for inaccuracy

Not a day goes by without some form of the following exchange taking place between two newsroom employees “When do you need it?” “Ten minutes ago!”

We live in an age where timing is everything. News is constantly changing and …

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Growing up with Google

Nearly a decade ago when Google first got on the scene I was just starting my first year of high school. I vaguely remember students and teachers discussing the power and efficiency of this new search engine which would soon …

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