Monthly Archives: September 2012

Journalism is legitimately a powerful tool

Some many not know this but journalism is very powerful.  The Internet has made videos and blogging powerful too.

Back in the ‘70s two young journalists by the name of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward worked at the Washington Post. …

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How Legit is Accountability Journalism?

There was a time before I went to college that I thought wikipedia was a reliable online source. After reading The Reconstruction of American Journalism by Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Shudson, it has come to my attention that the …

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If it’s not public, it’s not true

Our world is constantly evolving. If one were to think back to the days of the 1950’s, we were just getting television into the homes of Americans. Now, you can find a television in a majority of homes around the …

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Liberation through Digitization

Digital publishing is a miracle for public information. People seeking to be journalists are no longer at the mercy of worrying about getting published in a newspaper or magazine to be heard. Passionate individuals can report on the happenings in …

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Journalistic Liberty is Journalistic Death

Journalistic integrity is a virtue held highly across the globe. That sounds good but there isn’t really anyway to hold journalists to as high a standard as we the public would like to. One can twist and bend quotes, studies, …

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Tweet Tweet: The Twitter Takeover

When the word “tweet” is spoken, most of us no longer think of birds chirping. We now think of freedom of expression and personal thought filtered through social media. This is none other than the infamous twitter. Twitter has become …

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I’ll consider this blog post an outlet for catharsis

So much about grad school surprised me. What–I have to take statistics? But I’m a Communication student. Now we’re talking about numbers? I didn’t understand, but I faked it and did perfectly fine in Statistics during my first semester here.…

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Watch out!!! They’re everywhere!!!

That is how I feel about the political ads on television right now.

Every time I turn on the television, there is a political ad either slamming Obama or slamming Romney.  It’s Slam-A-Thon 2012 and us Floridians have a front …

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The Power of Blogging and Journalism In an Injustice Nation

I found Franklin’s article on the revolution in Egypt and the role of workers, journalists and bloggers  to be astonishing. We come from a world where one’s opinion is most certainly heard but rarely to the scale of provoking action …

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Leaving the Ways of the 80s behind for ‘Infotainment’

It’s always interesting to compare the past with the present. Oh how far we have come in technology, education, and even in fashion choices. In some of my past blogs I have been comparing the past with future in relation …

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