Al Jazeera Vs. the BBC’s Faltering Global Voice

By Elliot Adams As much as I like to claim I hate blogging, it does provide an alternative outlet for my irritation to that of repeatedly bitching to my girlfriend about the same topics untill my fickle humming-birdesque mind flutters off to extract chagrin-necter from a new source. Of late she has been putting up [...]

In Defense of the Burkha Ban

By Elliot Adams France’s far-right appeasing Burkha ban has been writ in law for a while now, though it hasn’t been enforced and there has been some further political wrangling over just what the law means for France. If you’ve managed to miss this part of Sarkozy‘s scheme to win the support of fools and [...]

The Heartache of Students Reporting Their Own Tragedy

By Elliot Adams I stumbled across this moving and provocative documentary about how The Collegiate Times, a student-run newspaper at Virginia Tech., dealt with the Virginia Tech Massacre. Their coverage was ahead of the international press, being the first media outlet to break news on the shootings, with online coverage as information came in on [...]

Pick of the Week 9/5

The soft underbelly of the right’s hard abs, by Amanda Marcotte for The Guardian, May 2011. The anti gay-rights American right’s worship of hypermasculinty is immune to camp. For all the posturing about toughness, the most salient aspect of this rightwing, over-the-top masculinity is how fragile it really is. The list of subversive threats that [...]

Lurid Tales of Doom, New Direction

By Elliot Adams Good journalism makes you think, great journalism makes you think twice – it moves you with accounts of humanity at her best or chills you with her worst; all to make you question what you once assumed as gospel truth. Contrarily, there is journalism of the circus or the courthouse. The lurid [...]