41 hours after an explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia that trapped 13 miners, the nation woke up relieved to see headlines reporting 12 of the 13 miners alive. Headlines in newspapers like USA Today screamed that twelve miners had beaten the odds. However, joy and happiness turned into grief and anger as […]
Archive for November, 2012
The British Broadcasting Company, or BBC, is the largest media source in the world, employing about 23,000 staff members. The BBC not only reports the news, but produces television, music, and other genres of entertainment and information. It’s quite diverse, the say the very least. What’s so interesting about the BBC as well is the […]
Last Tuesday, Americans voted to keep President Obama in office. Voters turned out in historic numbers to re-elect the incumbent and add democratic seats to the Senate. Though Republicans maintain the majority in the House, this election was clearly a democratic victory. 20 female Democrats, one openly gay, will serve in the 113th Congress. Our extremely diverse […]
Just about 15 years into the ‘online era,’ newspapers are suffering — but not as bad as was once thought. Besides the fact that daily newspaper circulation has been dropping every year for the past two decades, newspaper companies still experience decent business for a world overwhelmed by the Internet and electronic news. The case […]
Does fashion play too much of a role for women journalists?
Posted by: jgermano | November 11, 2012 | No Comment |The presidential election may be over, but it is still not too late to honor the women journalists who made a difference in the coverage of the 2012 campaign. In September, C-SPAN introduced this video, in which women journalists analyze the 2012 election. The internet is full of posts such as this, ranking the best […]
Norway is a relatively small country with a population of around five million and a geographical area slightly less than the state of California. There are more people of Norwegian descent living in America than in Norway. Despite it’s small size, Norway is a culturally rich country that has made many contributions to worldwide media. […]
Donald Trump released a now viral video on October 24th, in which he promised the world that he would donate 5 million dollars to the charity of President Barack Obama’s choice under 2 conditions: Obama would have to release his college records and applications, as well as all of his passport records and that he […]
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Tags: Bribe, College Records, Comm 455, Donald Trump, Kerry Burns, Passport Records, President Obama
Tags: Bribe, College Records, Comm 455, Donald Trump, Kerry Burns, Passport Records, President Obama
Political endorsements by newspapers: right or wrong?
Posted by: Emily Mann | November 6, 2012 | No Comment |Does anyone remember Alf Landon? No, right. In 1936, Landon was predicted by the Literary Digest, a respected magazine at the time, to win in a landslide over incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Literary Digest had predicted correctly the last five elections, but this one mistake would change the landscape of exit polling for years […]