By Max Warren
We’re becoming increasingly plugged in. And I worry, as everything that possibly can go digital does so, that we’re going to be unwilling to wait patiently on the things that can’t.
By Max Warren
Zion is the kind of small town that too many of us Last Generation kids never escape. Community college and the food-service-industry greedily devour a lot of the town’s youth.
By Max Warren
When I was younger, I had a problem with mirrors. I would go out of my way to avoid them, always being sure to keep the medicine cabinet open. The thing of it was, if I looked into one long enough, it really didn’t seem like I was looking at myself anymore.
By Max Warren
We’ve inherited a world that, in many ways, could not be riper for us to make our mark. The trick, then, is for us not to fuck it up.
By Max Warren
As a former Gator (class of ’10 and, of course, an English major) currently self-exiled to the frigid north at Harvard Law, I’ll be your guide—or a whimsical psychopomp, perhaps—on this blog journey we’re about to begin.
By Travis Epes
Immediately following the quake, an overwhelming percentage of the coverage sought to answer the following questions: How did you survive? Where did you go? Has the government done enough? Were you able to find your family? Direct and emotionally saturated, these questions only address the present and near future. One year later, much of the coverage centers around either the mismanagement of aid or the mounting health concerns. There’s one question we don’t hear too often though – How did things get this bad?
By Lydia Fiser
Come out to Weimer 3032 (the journalism building on UF’s campus) at 7 p.m. Thursday. The Fine Print paired up with Society of Professional Journalists and the College of Journalism and Communications to bring together a group of journalists who all covered the earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath. Here are the panelists: Rich Hirsch [...]
By Travis Pillow
The “environment dollar” is a pretty big dollar. The sustainability mavens have managed a coup, selling “green” and “organic” to hipsters and sorority girls alike – and probably their affluent parents to boot. The adherents of “hipster wisdom” tend to have privileged backgrounds and leftish politics. The former makes them the perfect target for any sales pitch, while the latter leaves them susceptible to appeals to conscience.
But behind the marketing coup is a real and growing anxiety about our mounting environmental calamity. People are driven to “organic” labels by well-founded concerns over the waste, pollution and adulteration that infect our food supply at every stage. Of course the solutions the marketers offer are mostly bogus, albeit highly profitable. A serious evaluation of our problems and the benefits of the products purported to solve them rarely fits their business model, so instead they wrap the products in emotional appeals to the customer’s as a person of conscience.
By Fine Print Staff
Fox News doesn’t acknowledge environmental harm is a bad thing. CNN can only cover celebrities and politics-as-a-spectator-sport. NBC is owned by GE, the world’s largest producer of coal-burning power plants. Nobody in “serious television” is in a position to give an issue like mountaintop removal the attention it deserves. Enter Colbert, who starts with the premise that his show is entertainment, and then brings in someone like Margaret Palmer, lead author of a recent study published in the journal Science that calls for an end to the harmful practice. The result makes for excellent television.