The flow of communication in the modern day world can now be reduced to symbols, acronyms, and “emoticons” to convey a message many people can understand. As of September 2011, it has been reduced yet another level lower. Snapchat, while not widely known by the world yet, is a growing form of communicating with others […]
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Snapchat: a fun and friendly or sexually suggestive application?
Posted by: kerryburns | November 27, 2012 | No Comment |Well known talk show host Dick Clark commemorated at AMA’s
Posted by: kerryburns | November 20, 2012 | No Comment |This past Sunday, the annual American Music Awards celebrated its 40th anniversary, with Ryan Seacrest as the show’s host. The event had the likes of media stars Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Usher, Nicki Minaj and Ke$ha all performing, with 9.47 million in viewership. At this particular music awards, host Seacrest and musical icon and legend, Stevie Wonder, paid tribute to Dick Clark, […]
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Tags: AMA, American Music Award, Comm 455, Dick Clark, Kerry Burns, Ryan Seacrest, Stevie Wonder
Tags: AMA, American Music Award, Comm 455, Dick Clark, Kerry Burns, Ryan Seacrest, Stevie Wonder
“Feel like Larry Hoover:” Rappers rob local recording studio
Posted by: kerryburns | November 13, 2012 | No Comment |Yesterday, 2 men robbed a local Laurel City recording studio, Copy Catz Studioz, at around 2 a.m. The men, who have still not been identified to the media, went on the studio a little after midnight, with the intent of cutting their rap song. The 2 men had no appointment set up before hand. The men were […]
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Tags: Comm 455, Copy Cats Studioz, Gangster Disciples, Kerry Burns, Larry Hoover, Laurel, Rappers, recording studio, Rob
Tags: Comm 455, Copy Cats Studioz, Gangster Disciples, Kerry Burns, Larry Hoover, Laurel, Rappers, recording studio, Rob
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
For any football fans or people affiliated to the DC metro area, the discussion of the Washington Redskins “getting it next year” has become all too familiar. With an amazing history of success throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, the Skins started to fall short in the 21 century. Since 2000, the Redskins have had […]
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Tags: Comm 455, DC, Kerry Burns, NFL, Redskins, RG3, Robert Griffin III, Washington Redskins
Tags: Comm 455, DC, Kerry Burns, NFL, Redskins, RG3, Robert Griffin III, Washington Redskins
Last sunday, austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner made history by breaking the sound barrier after free falling from 24 miles above ground. The entire process of Baumgartner’s rise 128,100 feet into the air, as well as his fall, was broadcasted live on Youtube, garnering millions of excited fans in viewership. Baumgartner reached up to 833.9 miles per hour […]
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Tags: Felix Baumgartner, Free Fall, Joseph Kittinger, Kerry Burns, Speed of Sound, World Record
Tags: Felix Baumgartner, Free Fall, Joseph Kittinger, Kerry Burns, Speed of Sound, World Record
There is a new website heavily promoting the use of word of mouth called Rawporter, which offers rather nice benefits to users or “rawporters” who post pictures and videos on the homepage of this site. Rawporter’s claim is this; with the increase of social media sharing of pictures and videos across the web, any large news […]
Censorship is unconstitutional…except in the rarest of cases
Posted by: kerryburns | September 25, 2012 | No Comment |Freedom of the press is a base principle in our society. However, this freedom was challenged by the government until 1931 when the case of Near v. Minnesota proved that prior restraint (censorship on expression before the expression actually takes place) is unconstitutional. The Saturday Press was created and run by an anti-Semitic man, Jay M. Near, […]
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Tags: freedom of the press, Jay M. Near, Kerry Burns, Near V. Minnesota, Saturday Press
Tags: freedom of the press, Jay M. Near, Kerry Burns, Near V. Minnesota, Saturday Press
Newlywed media stars Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively secret marriage and honeymoon in Va.
Posted by: kerryburns | September 18, 2012 | No Comment |It is no secret that the incredibly attractive, power couple Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively have been dating for about a year now, since they met on the set of “Green Lantern.” However, the two finally tied the knot on September 9 at a secret wedding at Boone Hall Plantation in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. […]
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Tags: Blake Lively, Boone Hall, Kerry Burns, Ryan Reynolds, Scarlett Johansson, Secret Wedding, The Notebook, Va.
Tags: Blake Lively, Boone Hall, Kerry Burns, Ryan Reynolds, Scarlett Johansson, Secret Wedding, The Notebook, Va.