Childhood Then vs Now? Is it that Diffrent?

If you're around my age, late teens, then you have definitely heard your parents (probably mostly your dad) talk about how their childhoods were better. They probably tell you to get off your phone and go play a game of pick up basketball in the street. What they neglect to understand is how different times …

Civic Engagement in Schools

Civic eduction classes are at a steep downhill in schools, especially public schools. I was lucky enough to have experienced both public and private high school education, and while going between these two schools I have noticed the increase of civic education classes in private school. This is just my experience, and it could be …

How Does Bias Effect Storytelling?

History is a soundproof set of facts right? Dates, events, and people are all written down in history. History is nothing but the truth, or that is how it is supposed to be at least, but what happens when we add bias to storytelling. The narrative then changes. These set of facts and dates become, …

Is there such a thing as a completely neutral news report?

What happens when facts are seen as a mere opinion? Neutrality is defined in the merriam-webster dictionary as  “the quality or state of being neutral”. News is defined as “a report of recent events”. These two definitions seem as if they would mesh well, but do they? Neutral news is something that we have never …

Is Local Journalism Important?

By Ava Barry What is important and what isn’t? Who gets to decide what is published and what is not? The world is huge, and there are so many more headliners going on that we don’t know about. In this era of technology, it has become increasingly easy to, at the tap of a button, …