Monday, February 25, 2008

The Love-Hate Reality

By Lucy Stonehill, Contributing Columnist

On February 12th, after three months of sign picketing and protesting, the Writer’s Guild struck a deal with media companies — primarily over the distribution of digital and media rights — and the strike came to an end. As planned by the “starving” writers, the strike devastated the television and film industry: TV audience ratings sharply declined, non-writers involved in the industry lost about $440 million and old episodes of cheap soaps were painfully repeated over and over again. The worst consequence of the writer’s strike by far, however, was the explosion of reality TV that occurred. More »

The Lost Art of Respect

By Evan Meyerson, Staff Columnist

I am convinced there is an epidemic at Dartmouth: there must be some medical explanation for how some of the nation’s brightest students transform into Neanderthals each and every Friday around 8 p.m. Call me misguided, but I refuse to believe that Keystone Light alone justifies the utter lack of respect Dartmouth students have for any social space outside of their own bedroom. More »