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 [...]
Archive for May, 2011
In Defense of the Burkha Ban
Posted: May 29, 2011 in PoliticsTags: Bigotry, Burkha, Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, Donald Duck, France, Funny, Hijab, Humour, Islam, Islamophobia, Law, Mickey Mouse, Muslim, Nicolas Sarkozy, Niqab, Paris, Parody, Politics, Satire, Snood, Veil
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
Posted: May 17, 2011 in Journalism, Media, US politics, USATags: Cho Seung-Hui, Gun Control, Journalism, Media, Mourning, News, Newspapers, School Shootings, Student Journalism, Students, University, Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech Massacre
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 [...]
Lurid Tales of Doom, New Direction
Posted: May 12, 2011 in Internet, Journalism, Media, Pick of the Week, UncategorizedTags: Art, Journalism, Literary Journalism, Literature, Media, New Journalism, New Media
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 [...]