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...made a paltry and delayed effort at understanding Corker’s position, choosing to portray the special assistant to the dean for social planning as some kind of omnibus party planner responsible for prying Harvard students from their books onto the dance floor, against their wishes. Moreover, the media??s long belated reporting of Corker’s appointment is sloppy journalism, reflecting just how eager media outlets are to perpetuate stereotypes of Harvard students that are utterly untrue in the name of filling space on a slow news day. The truth of the matter is that...
Ironically, while commercial hip-hop enjoyed tremendous financial success, it was gangsta and socially-conscious rap that dominated the media??s attention. In the beginning, gangsta rap’s obsession with reporting the conditions of ghetto life to outsiders granted America a great service: NWA’s “F--- Tha Police” exposed police brutality, while Public Enemy brazenly dissed Ronald Reagan by exposing the other side of his policies. This tradition reached its peak in the mid-1990s, when Nas’ Illmatic, the Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready...
...potential to preserve volumes that won’t physically survive the test of time for future generations, as well as cut down on the number of “lost” materials. The digitization of HUL also presents some fascinating possibilities for linking collections across disciplines and media??text, visual art, video, recorded music and manuscript. With the emphasis on interdisciplinary study in the Harvard Curricular Review, such universal access is ideal...
Each of the book’s 12 chapters addresses one risk associated with this new age, such as “Risk in the Media?? and “Health care in the U.S.” Thompson begins the chapters with her own words of wisdom about assessing and managing the risk, followed by relevant and insightful quotations from scientists, authors, politicians and other famous people including Albert Einstein, Maya Angelou, Mark Twain and Sir Winston Churchill...
...media coverage between the case of Evalyn Hernandez and the case of Laci Peterson? Laci is a Caucasian, middle class housewife from Modesto; Evalyn Hernandez is a poor immigrant from the Philippines. While this might not indicate inherent racism on the part of the media, it does represent the media??s obsession with the bottom line. The unwarranted airtime given to the Laci Peterson case is simply a tactic to boost ratings by covering the story that has the broadest public appeal—and, sadly, a case involving a young wealthy white woman has more appeal...