Media-crity

Does anyone have any “alternative” news sites they frequent? Comment with a link and a couple of words telling me what it is and I’ll check it out. I’m always looking for new sites to visit. Anything goes– newspapers, magazines, blogs, whatever you want.

This blog wouldn’t be here without some very influential professors I had the great fortune to work with at the University of Hartford. Bill Yousman, Lynne Kelly, Don Ellis, T. Stores, Evelyn Chien, Jeanne Bonaca, Dan Jones, Jane Dalal: Without all of you, I wouldn’t be where I am today.

Above all, though, I wouldn’t really be here at all without my mom.

After countless emails to unsuspecting friends of ranting and raving about the state of the media today, it hit me: I needed a blog! Not just any old blog about what I ate for dinner and how mad I am at Trixie this week, either. I needed one where I could spread my agenda to a more general– though perhaps just as unsuspecting– public! Blogger.com, you say? Eeeeexcellent.

Why should you care? Well, I have a degree in the subject of mass communication and, unlike 47% of communication majors out there, I chose that major on purpose. I took a number of fascinating classes that opened my mind to a world beyond CNN (I’m an MSNBC girl. Oh, I keed, I keed!) and the New York Times. Also, unlike 47% of the blogs out there, I have a pretty good grasp of the English language and all of its idiosyncracies. So that puts me ahead of 94% of everyone who has ever had a cognizant thought. No, wait, that doesn’t sound right. Math was never my strong suit.

So here I am. A girl with a college degree and a dream. And no, it’s not about you, me, and a bathtub of Jello.