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When the Media Exploits Your Cause

by Matthew Schmitz

Student activists need to be wary, not so much of hoaxers in their midst as of hucksters in the media. Continue Reading »

Carl’s Rock Songbook #63: ALMOST FAMOUS, Pt. 5

by Carl Scott

Having written one , two , three , four ALMOST FAMOUS-driven posts and now this one, I obviously do think it is an excellent film. Its one weakness is a certain complacency, underlined by its ending. I don’t have a problem with happy endings per se, but the one it provides really is too easy. . . . . Continue Reading »

Carl’s Rock Songbook #62: ALMOST FAMOUS, Pt. 4

by Carl Scott

Where we left ALMOST FAMOUS was with a question I say the film deliberately raises: How is a rock-writer like a groupie? 1)In the film, the rock-writer character is made very similar to them: William is “on the bus” and is underage. Yes, the latter fact is from Cameron Crowe’s life, . . . . Continue Reading »