Here is the last of the RCC Viewpoints articles. ——————– Ours is a so-called “age of information.” What would have taken months of researching or multiple library trips now takes a matter of seconds, thanks to the Internet. Google has made information-gathering all but instantaneous, and Wikipedia boasts to be collecting the sum total of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Viewpoints’
Angels, Demons, and Inaccuracies
Posted in Articles, tagged Angels and Demons, Brown, Dan Brown, false, film, hack, inaccuracies, Langdon, movie, Tom Hanks, Viewpoints on 3 August, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Viewpoints: College is a Scam
Posted in Articles, Society and Culture, tagged bachelor's degree, business, college, education, RCC, Riverside Community College, scam, Viewpoints on 7 April, 2009 | 18 Comments »
It was a quiet morning in the newsroom when I jokingly inquired if my next story could be called, “College is a scam.” My page editor and my editor-in-chief were in the room, and both, after a little prompting, actually agreed to the idea. Shocked and amazed, I felt volumes of arguments and tens of [...]
Viewpoints: The flip side of libel suits: a problem of definition
Posted in Articles, Ethics, Society and Culture, tagged Christian, Gabriel Arana, homosexuality, Joseph Farah, libel, Muslim, newspaper, RCC, Riverside Community College, slander, Tom Cruise, Viewpoints, Wikipedia, World Net Daily on 7 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This was my opinions piece for the last issue of RCC’s Viewpoints. In defense of the rather awkward way the two issues involved here overlap, I find myself blaming that convoluted dance I have come to know as “editing.” The original story was longer, and then it got cut down, and then I was told [...]
Viewpoints: The Last Full Measure of Devotion
Posted in Articles, Society and Culture, tagged ban, Begleiter, Biden, casket, Ellsworth, Gates, Joe, John, millitary, Obama, photo, Ralph, Robert, soldiers, Vietnam, Viewpoints on 25 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My first opinions article for this year’s viewpoints. ——- ‘The last full measure of devotion’ The new administration changes the policy on media coverage of fallen soldiers The United States is home to some 300 million or so citizens, and because of this, one can hardly expect all of them to be present in a [...]
