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News written by computers will make opinions matter more
For the first time, automatically generated articles are becoming practical for news sources to use – this carries interesting implications for journalism and internet writing. A variety of news sites,...
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Does The Onion Even Have Lines? #CongressHostage
So The Onion tweeted [#CongressHostage] about Congress holding schoolchildren hostage last Thursday. The Internet, as expected, exploded for a bit in a few places and then returned to normalcy.A rather...
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October 15: What’s Not Being Talked About In The News
For the most part, I try to keep my politics toned down here at CWR, but every once in a while, something comes along that straddles the line between ideology and culture that’d be wrong not to talk...
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Fame Day: Reddit
When Gordon first introduced the concept of Shame Day and Fame Day posts it was to keep them short and sweet, and I’m going to try to stick to that as midnight is fast approaching. When looking at my...
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I Don’t Know If Anyone’s Said This About Boston Yet
I’ve made it a habit not to report on a lot of the bigger news events due to the fact that, with so many people writing about them, someone is bound to have already said what I want to, and probably...
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Shame Day: Internet Journalism
So yesterday I was reading through comic book news, as I do, and came across this image that features award-winning actress Glenn Close as Nova Prime in the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy. When I...
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Evan and Gordon Kat Talk: Is The World Worse?
KAT: Hello friends, readers, bloggers. Hope you are all having a lovely week. I’ll be taking over for Gordon today as he is currently out on a hot date. That’s what I heard at least. So, since Evan has...
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Shame Day: Nike, Coca-Cola, and Nestle
By request, this Shame Day is going to be a triple-feature, with two of the most insidious corporations out there out in the stocks. Now I’m currently boycotting all three of these companies (and have...
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Fame Day: Cop Watch
Readers, as I was in the middle of researching my originally intended Fame Day I was interrupted by the sound of pounding outside my door. It was the cops, interrogating my next door neighbor about the...
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Neil Young and the Tar Sands
On January 12, 2014 Canadian singer Neil Young spoke out against the Alberta Tar Sands on his “Honour the Treaties” tour to “raise money for the legal fight against the expansion of the Athabasca oil...
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A Culture War Report: Facebooking the Ukrainian Protests
Social media is rapidly becoming a common source of news. For me personally, scrolling through my Facebook news feed can feel like picking up the morning paper. I have get to read comics,...
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Shame Day: Sun News
Sun News and New Prosperity Mine Some of you may remember the report I wrote this past summer describing the debate over the New Prosperity Mine application in Williams Lake. I attended a few debates...
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Shame Day: The Boko Haram Kidnappings (and the reasons I postponed reporting it)
I’m currently living with my in-laws. At our house John and I almost never watch the news, but living with them means that most evenings I take in at least an hour or two of current events. For weeks...
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Fame Day: #thevagenda, When Twitter took down the Tabloids
Have you seen these revamped tabloids floating around? These awesome rewrites were prompted by a recent challenge that Vagenda Magazine gave on Twitter: COMPETITION – take a snarky headline and turn it...
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Re: Do Western Christians Want Martyrs? – Yes, They Do
Yesterday, CWR’s own Kat posted “Do Western Christians Want Martyrs?”, a short post questioning the motivations behind the recent outpouring of Western sympathy for the plight of Iraqi and Syrian...
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The Stupid Stops Here
Life is a lot like a dairy pasture, in that you can’t get from one side to the other without wading through some serious bull****. Existence is full of little irrationalities and absurdities, and...
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When Life Gives You Don Lemon
By now, most of you are probably familiar with the recent scandal involving CNN anchor Don Lemon’s comments to Joan Tarshis, an alleged rape-victim of Bill Cosby. Lemon had blindsided his guest with...
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3 Questions We Need to Ask about FHRITP and Internet Justice
You may have seen the following video circulating on the internet. For those of you who haven’t seen it, I should warn you that it contains coarse language. I absolutely love how CityNews reporter...
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When Life Gives You Don Lemon II: The Lemoning
Don Lemon. Our more dedicated readers will remember we wrote about the CNN news anchor back in November, and by “wrote about him”, I of course mean “launched into a detailed tirade about what an...
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Socially Conscious Comedy Part II: Key and Peele on Being Black in America
Seeing how I love to pretend that binge-watching comedy sketches counts as research, I decided to follow up on last week’s post about Amy Schumer with a post about Key and Peele. I find a lot of...
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