Category Archives: World News

Defining photojournalism, images too graphic or people too sensitive?

A photo can tell a story. An image alone can make such an impact that no words are needed. When it comes to photojournalism when does a picture become to explicit and graphic? Is there even such a thing? Real …

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Do Media Outlets Really Have to Shock Us? Unfortunately They Do.

Arielle Emmett’s article, Too Graphic, discusses the feeling that some critics have been expressing lately with regards to the media’s seeming lack of taste or tact when displaying graphic images, especially in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti. Going …

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The Never-Ending “Big Brother” Debate

Can you remember the time when the only way to learn about the happenings around the country/world was either one of two ways: Reading the newspaper, or watching the evening news?  It seems like only yesterday that I was a …

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The Heralded Age: The Transition to Government Transparency

Prior to WWII, the United States was locked in a period of isolationism in an effort to remove themselves from events in Europe, as well as the world. The government shrouded their dealings and projects in secrecy, discreetly shipping and …

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Sailing into a “Vaster Wasteland” of information

When you turn on the TV, what do you watch? Is it news, is it gossip, is it just the weather? Like many people today, you likely find yourself with over a thousand channels but never anything ‘good’ on to …

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The Internet Has Made It Impossible For People To Stay Safe

As new stories continue to unfold in regards former LAPD Officer Christopher Jordan Dorner going on mass killing spree out of retaliation, it makes me wonder how safe we all really are, especially with billions of people having access to …

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The Revolution of Standing up to the Government

Whence the Revolution begins to describe events that occurred in Cairo, Egypt among policemen and bus drivers.  The policemen were beating bus drivers at their free will and would record it to send to other bus drivers to make it …

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Blogging is Used for the Better in Egypt.

How often do you see a piece of trash on the ground and just walk by it because you think somebody else will pick it up? Sadly, we walk by that piece of trash more often than we pick it …

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There’s something to be said for good character.

Is it better to stand up for whats right and face consequences? Or is it better to remain in the background and hope for the best?

In an article titled “Whence the Revolution” Cairo police who had been outed for …

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An Observation of Media Coverage From a Non-News Viewer

There are numerous ways to gather one’s desired information these days. It is no secret that newspapers are struggling to maintain an audience and now news channels on television are losing viewers as well. I’d have to say the main …

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