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Posted by: | November 4, 2012 | No Comment |

You know when you make that mistake by going to Walmart or Target at the first of the month and you’re waiting in a never ending line? What’s the first thing you do? I usually grab a magazine to make the time pass because who doesn’t love to take a break from reality and consume […]

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Oops they did it again

Posted by: | October 30, 2012 | No Comment |

Everyone makes mistakes, even the news. However with technology consistently evolving and the Zuckerberg wall constantly moving, one would think mistakes would happen less frequently. But they still happen all the time. In the 1400’s one of the biggest flaws with the printing press was ensuring death. In 1431 there was at least one false […]

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News is Ubiquitous

Posted by: | October 25, 2012 | No Comment |

News is ubiquitous. But does that mean that people are actually absorbing it? Television has given people the ability to see what’s going on in the world at anytime. Internet is another medium that informs people about the local and worldly happenings. But what are you taking away from it? I get it, your busy. […]

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Kanye’s egotism is something that is never really questioned because let’s face it..he loves himself. But he does sometimes share those gems of truth that can wake people up and help them realize what kind of world we’re living in. As a black female aspiring broadcast journalist, it is great to see more faces like […]

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Who doesn’t love to be the first one to know something? I love to be the source of information for any kind of news , but I definitely can’t be a fountain of information alone! I owe my success in my distribution of information to social media and television for their consistent updates of information […]

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It’s election season. We’re about a month out from the election and things are heating up. Wednesday was the first presidential debate which you can find here. The debates are an essential part of a presidential campaign because you really get to hear the candidates’ views from their own mouths, not that of the commercials […]

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The lucky 18

Posted by: | October 1, 2012 | No Comment |

It’s something everyone stares at for hours on end, absorbing as much newsworthy and useless content as possible until they have to go to the bathroom or actually do something important with their lives. When that moment comes, it’s not difficult to part ways with the television because you know that when you come back […]

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Not guilty

Posted by: | September 23, 2012 | No Comment |

I haven’t quite figured out why people take so much interest in celebrities misfortunes. I’m guilty of it myself, I’m usually the first of my friends to know about celebrity D.U.I’s, divorces and deaths. But that’s not to say I don’t rejoice inside when I find out about a new celebrity baby or marriage. There […]

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The pen is the tongue of the mind

Posted by: | September 17, 2012 | No Comment |

Today everyone has the ability to be a journalist thanks to social media. If you want to post about the protests in the Middle East or just simply want to gossip about someone’s outfit gone wrong we can do that after stroking a few keys. However, the ability to publish one’s thoughts was not always […]

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The beginnings of celebrity news

Posted by: | September 10, 2012 | No Comment |

Gossip! Gossip! Read all about it! Today we live in a fame obsessed culture where everyone wants to look like the celebrities they read about, or at least enjoy some of the same luxuries that they do. So we purchase magazines like PEOPLE and US Weekly read them religiously and reference celebrity gossip apps and […]

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