Libertas -- Focus

Media Then & Now: taking a gander at the
illustrious past and often idiotic present

My task: to read through transcripts of news broadcasts dating back to the seventies and ask the question, "What has changed?" The answer: a whole hell of a lot.

Playboy: I used to read it for the articles by Christina Hotsko

Has Playboy shifted its once "classy style" to become just another trashy men's magazine that portrays women as sex objects and serves only to satisfy (or attempt to satisfy) a man's sexual repression? Or could it still be referred to as the "class end" of the market?

Takin' it From the Popular Media by Amanda Stuckey

From the steady onslaught of blatant propaganda advertised in miraculous overnight weight-loss magic to more subtle infiltration into activities as routine as deciding what to wear each morning, the media looms almost inescapable.

>>We also thought we should reflect on media here at Davidson. Instead of stroking our own egos in a haze of booze and archived 'tas, we here present a short history of the ups and downs of our cohort in campus journalism.

The Davidsonian by Philip Sasser

The Davidsonian's 88-year history is a product of as much evolution as the world that it has sought to record is. This evolution, however, is significant as it represents, perhaps better than anything else, our college's changing perception of itself and the world outside of Davidson.

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