Word: mainstreaming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mainstream media organizations are all for interactivity when it means getting our audience to work for free-uploading video or volunteering prose on our websites. If we can outsource the news, why not outsource news criticism? Getting stories right takes constant attention. Let the audience help, by critiquing, analyzing and hectoring from as informed a basis as possible. Arguing that offering more information makes us less credible is not just absurd but antijournalistic. When else do reporters argue that their audience must be protected from knowledge...
...turned his back on black culture.The same category doesn’t really exist within the white community. A white kid wearing a G-Unit t-shirt may get snickered at on the street, but he’s still white. The fact that hip-hop (and, by extension, mainstream black culture) is embraced by non-black Americans has become undeniable. Hip-hop, then, is not dead, as rapper Nas recently claimed; it’s alive and well and dominating Top 40 radio. Where once the scope of black music’s influence on white America was largely...
Over cookies and chocolate ice cream in the Women’s Center last night, a group of about a dozen undergraduates—all of whom agreed that mainstream pornography objectifies women—tossed around ideas aimed at distinguishing the controversial publication from other pornography magazines...
...Julia T. Havard ’11 said that it was “artistic expression” with “a message behind it”—some of those present feared that Diamond would be less like H Bomb and more like mainstream pornography...
...Sara Kimmel, a psychologist at University Health Services and director of the College’s residential BGLTS tutors and the peer-advising group Contact, says this dichotomous milieu can be bewildering for closeted gay students.“Often students...feel they don’t identity with mainstream ‘out’ LGBT community on campus, and as a result experience a great sense of disconnect and isolation,” she says. “Students talk about struggling with the feeling that the visible queer community on campus is ‘too mainstream...