When I was a kid, it was a popular practice to assign students (I typed “stupid” first. Wtf?) current events reports. The teachers would send us home and make us read or watch the news, and then write a report on what we learned. I wasn’t really allowed to watch much news. My parents tried [...]
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Get better editors! This means YOU, news stations!
February 5th, 2010 
rayne 
Posted in Media Irritations 
Tags: current events, editors, grammatical errors, misspellings, news, newscasters, opinion, slang 
No Comments »I can’t bring myself to hate Oprah.
January 16th, 2010 rayne A friend of mine linked to an article on Nerve.com entitled Ten Good Reasons to Hate Oprah. The basic points of the list, for those who don’t have time to read it all (it’s lengthy), are as follows: Her idea of happiness involves a lot of spending At heart, her show is a gawk-fest She [...]
Posted in Celebrities in the News Tags: motives, Nerve.com, opinion, Oprah Winfrey, Ten Good Reasons to Hate Oprah 1 Comment »
