Category Archives: World News

Can Graphic Pictures really enhance the amount of Humanitarian Action?

On January 12, 2010, a catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti with a magnitude of 7.0 and it ended up killing around 230,000 people and leaving almost 3 million homeless. Once the news broke, American journalists and photographers rushed over there to … Continue reading

Posted in Economy, Education, Environment, General, Health, World News | Comments Off on Can Graphic Pictures really enhance the amount of Humanitarian Action?

The Problems With The Search Engine.

To “Google” something is a term that many of us are familiar with. When breaking news is released we most likely use it to get the most information. I’m sure when the creators of Google first thought up their search … Continue reading

Posted in Economy, Education, Entertainment, World News | Comments Off on The Problems With The Search Engine.

The Thin Line of Ethics in Photojournalism

Has the media and everything that society is exposed to made us almost impassive to most news unless it’s, well, shocking and dramatic? We have become so spoiled by technology that society has turned into children holding their hands out … Continue reading

Posted in General, World News | Comments Off on The Thin Line of Ethics in Photojournalism

Google and Fair Use

Google has become a verb in today’s world. When someone needs information, their solution will frequently be to “Google it”. Rarely do Internet users go directly to the websites for the New York Times or Washington Post. Instead, they will … Continue reading

Posted in Economy, World News | Comments Off on Google and Fair Use

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 time. In … Continue reading

Posted in General, World News | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on How Pictures Can Help and Hurt

A picture is worth….

As most girls are, I’m as squeamish as it gets. I can’t stand insects, slimy reptiles/amphibians, or gory torture movies like Saw. Over the years however, I’ve slowly built up the strength to take on some of the gross stuff … Continue reading

Posted in World News | Comments Off on A picture is worth….

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Politics, Science and Technology, World News | Comments Off on Transparency results in stronger society

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Economy, Science and Technology, World News | Tagged , , | Comments Off on A Decade of Being Able to ‘Google’

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Politics, World News | Comments Off on How free the information should be?

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?” … Continue reading

Posted in World News | Comments Off on See It To Believe It