Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez came to Ithaca College this past Monday to speak about "The Epic Story of Race and U.S. Media."
Before his speech in Emerson Suites that night, I filmed a Q&A of him with senior journalism major of WICB, Nicole Orgrysko.
Check out my multimedia piece of both Mr. Gonzalez's Q&A and discussion on YouTube or at The Ithacan!
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
Free Love
In Chapter four of Voices of Revolution, Victoria Woodhull, Ezra and Angela Heywood, and Moses Harman are discussed as prominent figures in the sexual reform movement of the 1800's.
This was a very enlightening and broadening chapter for me. Coming from a very modern perspective, I realized I have looked at the concept of "free love" as completely normal. It is amazing that editors and "free love" supporters had to dangerously fight for what we see as a functional marriage today.
But what bothered me about this chapter was the end of it. On page 77 of Streitmatter, it is said that, "The sexual reform press, in fact, never even succeeded in spawning a social movement that was larger than itself..."
This really put a damper on journalism. Seems to me that the best journalists, or the ones who live on forever, try to make an ultimate change in the world. They go to jail, face unbelievable charges and are even put to death over a cause that really will make no difference anyway.
"Most fundamentally, the sexual reform press failed utterly in its central goal of destroying the institution of marriage and replacing it with a system in which women and men were free to create and dissolve sexual unions at will," (Streitmatter 77).
The most depressing part is, is that some of these editors and their supporters, went back to conforming after these rebellious publications were stopped.
This was a very enlightening and broadening chapter for me. Coming from a very modern perspective, I realized I have looked at the concept of "free love" as completely normal. It is amazing that editors and "free love" supporters had to dangerously fight for what we see as a functional marriage today.
But what bothered me about this chapter was the end of it. On page 77 of Streitmatter, it is said that, "The sexual reform press, in fact, never even succeeded in spawning a social movement that was larger than itself..."
This really put a damper on journalism. Seems to me that the best journalists, or the ones who live on forever, try to make an ultimate change in the world. They go to jail, face unbelievable charges and are even put to death over a cause that really will make no difference anyway.
"Most fundamentally, the sexual reform press failed utterly in its central goal of destroying the institution of marriage and replacing it with a system in which women and men were free to create and dissolve sexual unions at will," (Streitmatter 77).
The most depressing part is, is that some of these editors and their supporters, went back to conforming after these rebellious publications were stopped.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
I came across a newly reputable fashion blog:
http://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/05/swissmiss-on-swissinfoch.html
An article was published about this new blog in a Swiss news website that is not an independent media outlet, but instead a branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC):
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/index.html
The blog, Swissmiss, was founded by a swiss designer Tina Roth Eisenberg who's trendy posts were noticed by the design world of New York. The article published in swissinfo.ch said that Eisenberg has "attracted 600,000 hits this past month."
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)