May 7th, 2013
An URL of the previous blog below (The Slippery Ethical Slope of the Hunts Point Express) was posted Monday on the The Hunts Point Express facebook page. Lo and behold, it was no longer there yesterday. In fact, the The Hunts Point Express on online is not accepting comments either.
Uh Oh! The plot thickens.
Tags: Department of Film and Media Studies, ethics, Hunter College, James Aronson Awards, journalism ethics, Peter Parisi, Riverdale Press, Student Journalism at Hunter College
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May 5th, 2013
D:F/M has been in a state of academic stasis for years and years but in recent years Colleagues have resorted to all manner of fabrications to cover up its failings. What follows reveals a venial sin/omission compared to a mortal sin/omission (catechism from Catholic schools still resonates slightly). It also could be merely a mistake.
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Tags: Aronson Awards, Bernard Stein, Hunter College, journalism, Kimberly Devi Milner, Pulitzer Prize winners, The Hunts Point Express, The Riverdale Press, unethical journalism
Posted in Blogroll, Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera, Ethics, It Was One of Those Semesters, It's Been One of Those Semesters, Journalism, Journalism Education, SCAMS, State of Journalism, Student Journalism, The Controversy Continues | No Comments »
April 25th, 2013
Send Peter Parisi a message so that James Aronson can stop turning over in his grave.
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Tags: Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, Hunter College, James Aronson, news censorship, Parisi
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April 13th, 2013
This was published several months ago in Indiewire by Josh Raiske but I just came across it and thought it needs to see more light of day.
It’s in my nature to overanalyze and to equivocate, and to make light of the things that are most important to me, but sometimes even those who can close off their emotions with seemingly little effort come up against a force that moves us in strange and powerful ways.
I saw The Central Park Five at the closing night of DOC NYC last night, and at the end, when the five men who’d been wrongfully convicted came up onto the stage, together in one place for the first time since that night in Central Park on April 19, 1989, I was choking back tears, and maybe all my perspective (too much fucking perspective) has gone out the window, but I think this is one of the most important films I’ve ever seen.
Full blog article here.
Tags: ken burns, NYPD Stop and Frisk, police brutality, sarah burns
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April 9th, 2013
Many articles in the works.
Tags: campus politics, CUNY, higher education, Hunter College, Hunter Department of Film and Media Studies, Office Politics, workplace bullying
Posted in Blogroll, Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera, It Was One of Those Semesters, It's Been One of Those Semesters, The Controversy Continues, Wooly Bully | Comments Off
April 1st, 2013
March 22, 2013 – A federal judge has ruled that a New York City Transit Authority rule requiring people using the city’s transit system to carry ID is unconstitutional. The decision is a victory for the New York Civil Liberties Union, which filed a lawsuit in November, 2011 defending the public’s right to take photographs in the subway system without fear of being arrested or having to show identification to police. Full story here.
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March 30th, 2013
Tags: D:F/M, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, journalism, undergraduate journalism
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An Open Letter to America about the Central Park Five
April 13th, 2013This was published several months ago in Indiewire by Josh Raiske but I just came across it and thought it needs to see more light of day.
Tags: ken burns, NYPD Stop and Frisk, police brutality, sarah burns
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