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The Only Newspaper Job Worth Having

The Only Newspaper Job Worth Having

While some journalists get excited about how big a story they land, I look at news reporting as a bottom rung type position. At least based on today’s media, 90% of reported news isn’t important enough for me to know. That means there are too many people running [Read More]

Why Newspapers Suck and Writers Need to Get Over It

Why Newspapers Suck and Writers Need to Get Over It

Every week I hear someone from GAC on 103.3FM or 105.3FM The FAN talk about how they don’t understand why people don’t read newspapers like they used to. Tuesday afternoon, the lame conversation from Ben and Skin on 105.3FM made reference to the “bro [Read More]

RIP Newspapers

RIP Newspapers

I started writing when I was 8. From that point until the beginning of my freshman year of college, my goal was to work for a newspaper. For ten years I had big dreams of working my way up the food chain and a big city paper. I wanted to see my work in print. [Read More]

Magazines Feature Green Issues

Magazines Feature Green Issues

My fellow Culture Feast blogger, Michael Callaway, has commented in this space on the many ways television celebrated “Green Week”. But television isn’t the only media that has sworn to raise your consciousness on what an evil polluter you are and how [Read More]

Reality Check: Paris Hilton to be Awarded WOMAN OF THE YEAR!!!

Reality Check: Paris Hilton to be Awarded WOMAN OF THE YEAR!!!

Every year we experience different types of award ceremonies: in the media, schools, music, writing, food and in our own little neck of the woods.  But this year, I came across an award that almost made me fall out  of my chair. As I was surfing the Net, I came [Read More]

This Week’s Idiots and Champs

This Week’s Idiots and Champs

I can’t help but write about today’s current events there are so many interesting and juicy topics in the mainstream media circle, so let’s get started. First, the Idiots: O.J Simpson There is really nothing I can say about O.J. Does anybody really care? Apparently, [Read More]

The Little Ball of Hate is My Biggest Fan

The Little Ball of Hate is My Biggest Fan

It would appear that Jennifer Engle, a.k.a. The Little Ball of Hate, is my biggest fan. I can’t imagine that there are that many people out there who listen to her morning talk show on 103.3 fm ESPN who then feel the need to search for her on Google, Yahoo, MSN, or [Read More]

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America’s Real Treasure

America’s Real Treasure

Here is a commencement speech that every American (and every culture vulture, for that matter) should read. In this [Read More]

Loneliness of Learning

Loneliness of Learning

I’m at a seaside resort somewhere in the Aegean. I’ve just visited the Temple of Apollo today. Built 2,700 [Read More]

The Poetic Voice of Generation Me

The Poetic Voice of Generation Me

Poets from around the world—from Vietnam and the Netherlands and Brazil and Canada, quite different from one another, [Read More]

Movie Review — Shutter Island (2010), a Psychological Thriller Masterpiece

Movie Review — Shutter Island (2010), a Psychological Thriller Masterpiece

A masterpiece by Martin Scorsese on the level of Taxi Driver and Goodfellas. The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Edward [Read More]

Boundaries and Identity in the Age of Globalization

Boundaries and Identity in the Age of Globalization

Boundaries are a must to preserve identity. Individuals need a boundary. And so do nations, football fans, and lovers. [Read More]

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