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...aspiring journalist myself, I have great concerns as to whether or not there will be any newspapers working in print anymore in a few years. I do not seem to be moving with the flow of technology. I am not sure that ideologically, I want to or that it is the right thing for Americans as whole, despite the amazing employment opportunities in this growing trend. The idea that computers and technology are taking over our lives and replacing people with things has become a cliche, but it has not disappeared, it is very much the reality of our world...
...people that are consuming the education, and we go to the people who are consuming the people who are consuming the education," Leonhardt said. "As a journalist, you want to go to the horse's mouth, so to speak...
When Durga Pokhrel was born in a small mountain village in Nepal, astrologers foretold that if she were born female, she would be as strong as a son. Appropriately named after the Hindu goddess of power, Durga went on to pursue a turbulent career as teacher, journalist and democratic and human rights activist in Nepal, during which her strength and constancy were severely tested. Contrary to the wishes of her conservative Hindu family, she became a scholar and university lecturer, but was blacklisted by the government for her political activities and eventually expelled from the university where she taught...
...death was truly mourned only by a few stalwart friends and defenders. William Safire, one of his former speechwriters, in a desperate revisionist effort even sought to excuse one of Agnew's racist comments ("What's the matter with that fat Jap?", directed towards a dozing Japanese-American journalist). Agnew's onetime campaign press secretary, Victor Gold, declared in what must have been a fit of hysteria that "Spiro Agnew was the John the Baptist for [the Reagan] revolution...
...Saturday, September 21. The e-mail I receive from the IOP about HYPE '96 teases, "MTV will be there, will you?" so I arrive at the MAC Quad early, determined to pigeonhole one of the station's bigwigs. Ready to pretend I'm a journalist, I have a few questions written on a note card about MTV's role in the political process: "Are 'Choose or Lose' specials and the 'Week in Rock' programs objective news accounts? Doesn't MTV's hosting of a ball at the Clinton inaugural imply a partisan leaning? But if CBS held an inaugural ball...