Last November millions of people sat at their computers anxiously anticipating the opportunity to purchase tickets to see Taylor Swift live in concert. Taylor had released four new albums (not including re-releases of her old albums) since her last tour in 2018. Taylor’s most recent album Midnights shattered numerous records upon its release, reaching 185 […]
Read More Ticketmaster: A monopolyLocal News JMU’s “Holocaust-Centered” program is distasteful and non-inclusive. Two-dozen Jewish faculty, faculty emeriti, and staff from JMU intended to boycott “Holocaust-centered” lectures, according to an article published on January 26, 2023, by The Breeze. The event lacked support from the Jewish community as well as several others. The event, which we supposed to be […]
Read More Newsroom round up 1/31“Corporations take advantage and tokenize marginalized communities in order to make consumers feel better about using and buying their products, while still exploiting workers from those same communities.”
Read More Capitalism Won’t Save UsI came across two articles the other day that I thought I might discuss on the blog. The first is titled, “Waiting for Good Joe,” and is written by Tim Harford of Slate Magazine. In the article, Harford provides readers with a seemingly unimportant (in the grand scheme of things) statistic: “Men get their coffee […]
Read More I’d Like a Small Coffee, and I Want it 20 Seconds Faster.So I was procrastinating on the interwebz the other day and I came across something that really got to me. An article taken from The Consumerist titled “We’re Sorry You Ever Came To Our Store & Wasted Our Precious Time,” writer MB Quirk describes a situation where a woman and her friends were shopping for […]
Read More GASP! Sorry your store got shut down…NOTI’ve been listening to talk radio in my car while running errands over the past few days, on the occasion that my iPod FM Transmitter broke and my burned cd collection melted together in some scientifically unidentifiable catastrophe. Top news stories on NPR as of lately include the harrowing tale of trapped Chilean miners, a rescue touted […]
Read More A Shout Out! to EcoFeminists
ShoutOut! James Madison University 