Nothing in journalism class had prepared me for it. The source I had been interviewing for my very first high school newspaper assignment had just pulled my notebook out of my hands and ripped out the pages containing our interview, shouting that if I wasn’t going to report impartially, then he wasn’t going to talk to me. I did the only thing I could think of — I left, carrying my notebook with jagged margins where my notes had been. More »
It’s been a marathon week for shouting, paranoid lunatics. Just in case global warming, nuclear proliferation, H1N1, drug-resistant bacteria and the inevitable extinction of our sun weren’t all scary enough, there’s a new global nemesis to face off with: gang rape. Over the past week, countless newspapers, cable news stations and blogs have sounded off on what they think of the gang rape of a student from Richmond High School in Richmond, Calif., and the results are far from surprising — America still thinks gang rape is bad. What I find more disturbing is the absurd media attention being given to the case and the exorbitantly expensive “solutions” being proposed. More »
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