There's been a lot of debate over the years about the possible adverse effects of television on children. A recent study suggests that viewing lots of sexual activity on TV prods sexual exploration in children. The study jives with common sense and my intuitions, but Ill hold off on using it as a rallying cry for less must on TV because I haven't yet read the study for myself to see if the statistics are trustworthy.
Here are a couple sites dedicated to highlighting news stories that don’t get heavy rotation.
Kerry’s campaigners, MTV producers, and most ordinary people thought that the MTV generation would be hard-core supporters of the Democratic party, and thus Kerry. We all received a bit of surprise when Kerry’s daughters were booed while speaking at the MTV Video Music Awards. Either the Generation Y vote isn’t guaranteed or they’re just tired of politics spilling over into pop culture.
University of Pittsburgh alumni have won the Nobel Prize, played in the National Football League and unlocked the secrets of DNA. On Wednesday, the university celebrated a less prestigious but equally sweet accomplishment — the banana split.
Pitt declared Wednesday “Banana Split Day” and celebrated the dessert’s 100th birthday by serving about 4,000 ice cream cones to university freshmen, family members, students and others returning to campus for the new school year.
Banana spilts I can be proud of. These poor excuses for journalism, I cannot.
High school’s at home; welcome to the collegiate hook-up (Part 1)
High school’s at home; welcome to the collegiate hook-up (Part 2)
What college doesn’t need a drunken debauchery and hedonism sex column? *rolls eyes*
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Propaganda Infiltrates Opinion Pages
By Paul Farhi
Reader, beware! Some of America’s newspapers have become
unwitting conduits for campaign propaganda. Thanks to some nifty Internet technology, the campaigns of President Bush and John F. Kerry are making it easy for their supporters to pass off the campaigns’ talking points as just another concerned citizen’s opinion. Pro-Bush or pro-Kerry letters bearing identical language are flooding letters-to-the-editor columns.