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La R. Speaks: On the Quality of News Coverage

From the mouth of the Cuban: 


“Obama’s pastor is not Obama. It’s what Obama’s pastor said, and where the oldest double-moral Republicans put their weenies, instead of the real issues that are banning this country from the international arena, from the world! An entire half an hour on Obama shit. Nobody is scrutinizing the federal money going to that bank and putting money in individual  pockets, because it’s not going to people who were screwed up by the bank. That’s what journalism should be doing: defending the interests of the taxpayers. No money for the people who don’t have jobs, no money for the people in New Orleans who still don’t have houses, but money for the people in the bank. Go and see where that money goes. It’s outrageous. And CNN sucks. Shame on you. So-called journalists. And Americans don’t see that the value of the dollar is down, that the housing market is in the greatest crisis since the Depression, that the price of gas is above and beyond, that the international deficit is the greatest ever for the last more than a decade. They are not doing real journalism. They are checking on a pastor.”

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

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I Can Has Brain Transplant?

My brain is soup.After wrestling with my fiction form and theory midterm, which is designed to approximate comps without a four-hour time limit, I’ve just finished catching up on the response papers I haven’t done for ed psych because of AWP, the flu, and my inability to comprehend the somewhat-quirky syllabus. Now I just have to worry about catching up on all the articles I need to have read by class tomorrow, when we’ll get the ed psych take-home, which (along with the ed psych research paper and the poems I need to write and revise) will expand to fill the spring break allotted. On the up side, I’ve learned a ton of useful things from both classes already and have a strong core for my ed psych research paper that also applies to my own teaching. Plus, I got the OK for two independent studies between now and fall: a comp-rhet theory that will expand upon the EPY research and apply it specifically to how our English GTAs are trained, and a directed readings on the poetry of exile, which is as close as I’m going to get to a comparative literature class in my program. Dr. Bottoms and I will swap fascinations: his with Eastern European poets and mine with Cuban poets. Oh joy!By fall, all should be hunky-dory. I’ll be down to my last few courses, and I’ll probably be able to take both Old English and Spenser right on schedule.Now… it’s 1800 time. Ching ching! (toast) 

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