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.

Labels: media literacy

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.

Labels: blog business

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.

Labels: blog business