The Privilege of the Unpaid Intern
Commenting recently in The Guardian, the writer David Dennis went so far as to assert that unpaid internships were “ruining journalism” by squeezing out the voices of those with “mid- to lower-class backgrounds.” Publications that use unpaid interns, he says, are “perpetuating a privilege-based upward mobility.”
...“Paying interns the minimum wage is the right and moral thing to do,” says Robert Shindell, vice president and chief learning officer at Intern Bridge, a research firm. “It levels the playing field and allows us to focus on the more important question: Are we as a society effectively transitioning our students from college to the world of work?”
Friday, June 21, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Exodus International closes its doors, offers apology
Group That Promoted ‘Curing’ Gays Ceases Operations
20 June 2013
The decision by the board of Exodus International to stop operating comes as the group’s president, Alan Chambers, has been increasingly vocal in proclaiming that there was no cure for homosexuality and that therapy did not work in changing a person’s sexual orientation.
Alan Chambers' full apology is at the Exodus International website.
20 June 2013
The decision by the board of Exodus International to stop operating comes as the group’s president, Alan Chambers, has been increasingly vocal in proclaiming that there was no cure for homosexuality and that therapy did not work in changing a person’s sexual orientation.
Alan Chambers' full apology is at the Exodus International website.
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Does the NYTimes have enough stories that affect poor people?
1 June 2013
How well does The Times cover those who live in poverty and the news that affects them?
...Diane Nilan, an Illinois-based advocate for homeless families, is frustrated by The Times’s “spotty interest”: “I ache for these people, but until the media make an issue of it, nothing will happen. It would be good to see The Times really take the lead in providing clarity and building compassion.”
Some advocates for the poor see another problem: News organizations, including The Times, tend to treat those in poverty as “the other,” a problem that is “over there.”
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Impact of a single Hmong child: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Life Went On Around Her, Redefining Care by Bridging a Divide
14 September 2012
Lia Lee died in Sacramento on Aug. 31. (Her death was not widely reported outside California.) ....Acclaimed by reviewers, “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” won a National Book Critics Circle Award. It has sold almost 900,000 copies, according to its publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and remains widely assigned in medical schools and in university classes in social work, anthropology, journalism and other fields.
As a result, Lia’s story, as few other narratives have done, has had a significant effect on the ways in which American medicine is practiced across cultures, and on the training of doctors.
14 September 2012
Lia Lee died in Sacramento on Aug. 31. (Her death was not widely reported outside California.) ....Acclaimed by reviewers, “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” won a National Book Critics Circle Award. It has sold almost 900,000 copies, according to its publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and remains widely assigned in medical schools and in university classes in social work, anthropology, journalism and other fields.
As a result, Lia’s story, as few other narratives have done, has had a significant effect on the ways in which American medicine is practiced across cultures, and on the training of doctors.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Taking up fitness at middle-age has its benefits
The Benefits of Middle-Age Fitness
5 September 2012
What they found was that those adults who had been the least fit at the time of their middle-age checkup also were the most likely to have developed any of eight serious or chronic conditions early in the aging process. These include heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and colon or lung cancer.
The adults who’d been the most fit in their 40s and 50s often developed many of the same conditions, but notably their maladies appeared significantly later in life than for the less fit. Typically, the most aerobically fit people lived with chronic illnesses in the final five years of their lives, instead of the final 10, 15 or even 20 years.
5 September 2012
What they found was that those adults who had been the least fit at the time of their middle-age checkup also were the most likely to have developed any of eight serious or chronic conditions early in the aging process. These include heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and colon or lung cancer.
The adults who’d been the most fit in their 40s and 50s often developed many of the same conditions, but notably their maladies appeared significantly later in life than for the less fit. Typically, the most aerobically fit people lived with chronic illnesses in the final five years of their lives, instead of the final 10, 15 or even 20 years.
Tax strategy helps the rich get richer in business
Inquiry on Tax Strategy Adds to Scrutiny of Finance Firms
1 September 2012
The attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, has in recent weeks subpoenaed more than a dozen firms seeking documents that would reveal whether they converted certain management fees collected from their investors into fund investments, which are taxed at a far lower rate than ordinary income.
1 September 2012
The attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, has in recent weeks subpoenaed more than a dozen firms seeking documents that would reveal whether they converted certain management fees collected from their investors into fund investments, which are taxed at a far lower rate than ordinary income.
Falsehoods abound at 2012 RNC Convention
The G.O.P. Fact Vacuum
31 August 2012
Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher looked at the fact-checking site PolitiFact’s tallies on Aug. 10 and found that:
“Mitt Romney’s statements have been judged Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire 46 percent of the time, versus only 29 percent for President Obama. In the Pants on Fire category alone, Romney is more than four times as likely to suffer trouser immolation thanthe president. Nearly 1 in 10 statements by Romney earned flaming slacks, versus 1 out of every 50 for Obama.”
31 August 2012
Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher looked at the fact-checking site PolitiFact’s tallies on Aug. 10 and found that:
“Mitt Romney’s statements have been judged Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire 46 percent of the time, versus only 29 percent for President Obama. In the Pants on Fire category alone, Romney is more than four times as likely to suffer trouser immolation thanthe president. Nearly 1 in 10 statements by Romney earned flaming slacks, versus 1 out of every 50 for Obama.”
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