A few days ago I watched the Frontline documentary ‘Chasing Heroin’. It was trending on my timeline, having been shared thousands of times and described as a searing film about an epidemic. That epidemic? Heroin. It’s a well-made film, typical of Frontlines with a strong journalistic edge. It is in fact searing and worth […]
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Crack v. Heroin : because history will repeat itself.
Posted by: jcausey2 | March 29, 2016 | No Comment |
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Tags: cocaine, crack, frontlines, History, jacquelynne causey, media coverage, Political Reporting, Politics, war on drugs
Tags: cocaine, crack, frontlines, History, jacquelynne causey, media coverage, Political Reporting, Politics, war on drugs
‘#NeverTrump’: Marco Rubio’s attack on Donald Trump
Posted by: karajin | March 1, 2016 | No Comment |Albright & Steinem to young women: You are going to hell and only voting for Bernie to get laid
Posted by: dhollan2 | February 11, 2016 | No Comment |Are Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem, longstanding pillars of feminism, pandering to the very societal stigmas/stereotypes that they’ve spent their entire lives overcoming and condemning? It would seem so. This weekend at a New Hampshire rally for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, Ms. Albright, 78, who has been hailed by feminist communities as an icon due […]
New and emerging forms of social media are not only changing the way organizations attract supporters, but are also changing the way we look at politics all together. In essence, nearly all Americans have a cellphone or at least access to a computer these days, and the majority of us have evolved to a much, […]
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Tags: "liking", America, connectivity, democracy, donations, Facebook, new media, News, old media, politicians, Politics, power, progress, sharing, snail-mail, the future, the internet, TV, tweets, websites
Tags: "liking", America, connectivity, democracy, donations, Facebook, new media, News, old media, politicians, Politics, power, progress, sharing, snail-mail, the future, the internet, TV, tweets, websites
Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything
Posted by: arielsimone | October 4, 2012 | No Comment |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 […]
There are four types of opinion pieces in newspapers: Editorials– The written opinion of an editor, an editorial board, or of the political leanings of the entire organization Cartoons– Illustrations that appear in the paper poking fun at current events, often expresses the opinion of the artist Columns– A regularly printed series of articles of […]
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Tags: Editorial, gpelkofski, newspapers, Opinion, Politics, The Washington Post
Tags: Editorial, gpelkofski, newspapers, Opinion, Politics, The Washington Post
Political reporting has always greatly altered the way people feel about critical topics. From the days when one journalist would follow Presidential candidates everywhere they went, to the first televised Presidential debates in 196o, reporting on politics has always served a pivotal purpose: to enlighten. Today, all of the major cable networks spend the majority of […]