2008 Woodie Awards
With California's $10 billion financial debt, one would find it irrational to even spend another dollar towards something unnecessary. Yet this November's ballot contains a proposition that will spend more than just a dollar ... $6 billion more. It's called Proposition 71 and it allows the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to be established to regulate and fund stem cell research.
Deceitful misinformation. Authority figures scandalized. A public misled. Sounds like the credibility of the news media suffered another boot to the head. But I'm not necessarily talking about a certain large network. I'm actually referring to your beloved student newspaper, the one and only Skyline View.
It has become a tradition in this column that no matter what is said, or how it is stated it should be offensive to somebody. So why break from tradition now? In the wake of the presidential debates that happened last week, as well as the impending elections to take place in November, it is has come to my attention that I have not yet voiced my opinion on the president, the election, or the electoral process as a whole.
Editor -- I am writing out of concern over the article "Hours buy a dollar with new English rules," because it contained misinformation which was inaccurate and misleading. Yes, the cost of the tuition was raised, but this has nothing to do with the 16 hours-by-arrangement because students pay nothing for them.
With the Oct. 5, release of "Fahrenheit 9/11," I thought I should give a brief rundown on the movie's lies and deceits. I call it a movie, because a documentary is based on facts, not misrepresentations. The movie starts out by immediately attacking President Bush.
