A traveler from birth, Pico Iyer was born in Oxford, England before he and his family picked up and moved to California by the time he turned seven years old. Iyer flew back and forth by plane between California and Oxford throughout his schooling years. As soon as he graduated high school, he worked at […]
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1960’s: The 1960s was marked by clashes of ideologies and the result was a decade mired in turbulence — but also one that brought important changes College students and Civil Rights activists took on what they perceived as an oppressive and unjust political system. In the early- and mid-60s, Civil Rights activists organized marches and […]
1930’s: The Great Depression dominated most of this decade; Prohibition ends in 1934 Franklin Delano Roosevelt renews hope by using the radio (to conduct fireside chats) and starting a series of programs to boost the economy, otherwise known as the New Deal Fascism was on the rise: Hitler and Nazi party came to power in Germany; Benito Mussolini rose to […]
“The very basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” —Thomas Jefferson, […]
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“Crimes lead to all sorts of other interesting stories” -Bob Woodward
Posted by: bkiml | October 28, 2010 | No Comment |The physical paper is so expendable; it’s likely to be seen lining the bottom of bird cages or wrinkled and shoved in some room corner. The physical newspaper can now be seen carrying the visual image of the phrase: news does not keep. The general attitude to the physical newspaper can be at best be […]
“What I approve I defend; what I dislike I censure” -Defoe
Posted by: bkiml | October 5, 2010 | No Comment |When the television is flipped on today, or the morning paper unfolded, or the website for CNN is opened on a browser, the stories that are most likely to come up first are political. Aside from the fact that it’s election time right now, stories featuring political issues and figures are a common sight in […]
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Picture retrieved from OliverAlex’s photostream and found by way of Creative Commons Since before newspapers were first began being made, crime has been reported. One of the earliest crime reports were written in cuneiform and on clay tablets. Today, the language and the medium may be different, but the draw of a crime report remains […]