Media Criticism

Jokes can be politically incorrect. That’s fine. That’s great. It’s humor. It’s funny. – Except when it’s not. Except when those jokes are aired to an entire nation (of which, granted, only 40.3 million tuned in) and aren’t followed up with any sort of balancing force. Especially when those jokes don’t enlighten, but rather perpetuate established cycles. Not to mention when they’re jokes we’ve heard a thousand times before.

Unique style is marked by the fact that it is personal. By this I mean that it is something that should belong to you and be a composite of all the political and cultural things that represent you. But by emulating the “Odd Future Style” (for lack of a better term) you’re presenting yourself as someone who is drawing influence from a certain group of individuals, who frankly, (oh puns) look like little boys.

As current students and alumni committed to truth, transparency, and critical examination of our surroundings, this new policy flies in the face of everything we are taught to practice as journalists.

This controlled and limited dialogue and prohibition of multiple perspectives diminishes our ability to act honestly and independently, a virtue held high in Journalism Ethics, while impeding the goal of upholding the value of objectivity.

The Ithaca College Theatre’s 2011 to 2012 main-stage season ended brilliantly with an erotic dark comedy about hegemony, and the balance between virtue and justice. With some quality acting, eye-catching costumes and a whimsical genre combining both horror and comedy, Measure for Measure proves to be the best show of the spring series.

Two years ago, Starbucks started expanding its business by including alcoholic beverages, such as wine and beer, on their menu.

In its annual collaboration with the Ithaca College School of Music, Ithaca College Theater hosted Mozart’s The Magic Flute, a whimsical opera following two friends on their quest for love.

You will have to find out what Students for Justice in Palestine is all about. But I urge the campus to base their judgments of the group off of our actions and not the presumptions of The Ithacan, Michael Faber, or representatives from SAFI.

There are many problems with The Ithacan’s most recent cover story, but four components really stick out as elements of sex-negative, irresponsible journalism.