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Melissa Harris-Perry show is canceled after tensions rise at MSNBC

Instead of hosting her show the week of the Iowa caususes, Perry was introduced briefly as a side by MSNBC’s legal correspondent, Ari Melber. Perry has felt increasingly pushed aside by the network for a long time, which was eerie …

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Why teenage inventor Ahmed Mohamed was arrested after bringing a home-built clock to school

An incident that happened at a Texas high school a few weeks ago has struck a nerve

across the country, and it has even prompted President Obama to speak his mind on

Twitter and recognize Ahmed Mohamed as an inventor …

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Gossip needs to stay out of the news

There are wars, conflict, discoveries, and changes every day all over the world, and all we seem to be focusing on, is which celebrity couple is breaking up, and who’s life is falling apart. Every week there seems to be …

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My First Actual Interaction With a Television Reporter From Fox News

This morning, I was about to head out to class when I open the door to my community and see a police officer with a shotgun standing next to my car and telling me to go back inside my apartment. …

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February 11th: A Day of Protest on the Internet

The NSA has been quite the topic of controversy lately. Thousands of blogs, forums, and news sites around the world have been discussing the dangers, advantages, and overall invasion of privacy the National Security Agency has been accused of in …

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Have the Watchdogs Abandoned Their Posts?

It is well known that one of the media’s main purposes is to keep our government in check. As the trite saying goes, journalists are the “watchdogs” of Washington. However, according to Jodi Enda in Capital Flight, “Watchdog reporting …

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The Media’s Code of Ethics Is Non Existent

Today I was at work and while I was working one of my coworkers asked me to come over to her desk. There we were standing around her computer looking at the Wesh Channel 2 news page. the clicks on …

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Graphic Photos Becoming More Available

For those of us who still pick up a newspaper in the morning, the very few of us left, we are being exposed to photos that are much more graphic in nature than in the past. We can look to …

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Not Just a Typo: 24 Hour News Cycle Causes Editors to Make Mistakes

It is pretty apparent that editing in the world of the news media has become a bit of an afterthought. With the high demands of a 24-hour news cycle, factual errors and typos seem to frequently slip through the cracks. …

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Introducing the Internet in Some Cultures Can Make All The Difference

Once a culture is introduced to the Internet, information is discharged at a constant frequency. Social Media, blogging, Internet news sites, and social media sites have become an equal force to conventional media such as newspapers and broadcast news. Internet …

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