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 haven’t just had Thanksgiving or anything, that’s not really what is deemed the “holiday season.” 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 I’m about to say won’t be on the nightly news. It won’t run in The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal either. You won’t 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. It’s 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…
Video games not cause or fault
Video games and cable news networks seem to go together about as well as orange juice and toothpaste. For some reason, both liberal and conservative media outlets have turned their eyes to video games as a modern boogeyman responsible for…
Gingrich beats others as most seasoned GOP contender
First, it was Mitt Romney, then Rick Perry, followed by Herman Cain and now it’s Newt Gingrich. Is Newt a viable contender for the Republican nomination or just the flavor of the week? Newt Gingrich’s poll numbers have been rising…
Personality shifts between home, school
I live a double life. I don’t fight crime on weekends, as my “Kim Possible” ringtone suggests, but rather I am a completely different person during the summer months than I am here at school. During the school year, I…
Internet Under Firewall
The Internet can sometimes seem like a lawless place. Indeed, many things some people consider to be wrong can be expediently accessed on the Internet – theft, violence, immoral sex, you name it, it’s on there. But, fundamentally, the Internet…
