In Soviet Russia, âElfâ watches you
As the holiday season encroaches, Americans should be wary of our most cherished institution: television. Sure, TV will regurgitate the usual canon of Christmas movies and specials. Within the next month, Jimmy Stewart will realize the value of life, Rudolph…
America all fracked up
Though I do not attest that fracking is a momentary economic boost to a location, it is only such a boost to the landowner that leases the property. To say that it brings monetary relief to whatever economy it enters…
Rushing into marriage leaves room for doubt, failure
Can you name a tradition as old as human sacrifice and equally as unwise? If you said young marriage, you are correct and may also be a mind reader. In ancient times, average life expectancy was somewhere in the 20âs…
Black Friday shopping not worth consumer madness
Before Thanksgiving last week, I had never participated in anything associated with the sociological event known as Black Friday. Normally, I will only get out of bed before dawn for a really good reason, and hours of shopping simply did…
Christmas all about making memories
Christmas is quickly arriving, but for many it began halfway through October. It seems like every year stores start bringing out Christmas merchandise earlier than the year before. It irritates me a little bit, because as much as I like…
Enjoy family, not items
The holidays are approaching, and though we havenât just had Thanksgiving or anything, thatâs not really what is deemed the âholiday season.â Black Friday solidifies the start of this season, obviously, with the gross misconduct of bargain shoppers who half-kill…
Letter to the Editor – 11/18/2011
As a graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. School of Communication (magazine journalism, class of 1981), I was struck by the incomplete and somewhat slack reporting by Timothy James. Fact checking, and clarification of facts is essential in the field of…
Journalism eats world
What Iâm about to say wonât be on the nightly news. It wonât run in The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal either. You wonât hear about it on CNN and pundits will not sit at a round…
Mass media forget fundamentals
The media is slowly becoming less and less definable. Year after year, new technologies and advances in old ones increase the size and scope of the media. Itâs gotten to the point where any person with an email address and…
College benefits might be worth high costs, debts
By the time I graduate from Oswego State, I will have accumulated $44,000 in federal loans. As an independent student I qualify for more loans than most students and as an out-of-state student I certainly need them. I often find…
