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Sentencing Law and Policy
Urging more media coverage of the “truly guilty and violent”
Main February 23, 2015Urging more media coverage of the "truly guilty and violent"Via consistently helpful Marshall Project, I came to see this interesting recent piece by Steve Bogira titled "Guilty…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
“Girl, 11, demands DC Comics to feature more female superheroes – so they draw her as one”
By John Kang
Cute story from the Independent UK: “Please do something about this, girls read comics too and they care,” the 11-year-old from Champaign, Illinois, added according to NBC’s Today show.A DC Comics artist drew Rowan…
Elder Law Prof Blog
From the Cover of Rolling Stone to…
Bob Dylan goes from the cover of Rolling Stone magazine ... to the cover of AARP Magazine.... More signs that the times they are a changin' for elder boomers!
The Right Coast
Why Does The Mainstream Media Call Muhammad The Prophet ?
In all the coverage of the barbaric terror attacks in Paris Wednesday, one fact of the story kept getting repeated in a curious way on network news, cable news, and in…
The Right Coast
Dean Baquet calls N.Y. Times critic ‘a–hole’ – POLITICO.com
"We have a standard that is pretty simple. We don't run things that are designed to gratuitously offend," Baquet told POLITICO at the time. "[O]bviously [I] don't expect all to agree.…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The “Newsroom” A Little too Close to Reality
By Tracy Thomas
The TV show "The Newsroom" (admittedly one of my favorites) "in an astonishing case of prescience, created a plot that hewed closely to the recent article in Rolling Stone magazine about an…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Looking Away at Cosby’s Rape Charges
By John Kang
An editorial from David Carr:With public revulsion rising in response to snowballing accusations that Bill Cosby victimized women in serial fashion throughout his trailblazing career, the response from those in the know…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The UVA Rape Stories
By John Kang
The Rolling Stone story about rape at UVA has provoked much discussion. Here are some relevant links.The story itself. The follow-up by RS.A Salon article about RS.A Slate article about RS.
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
“Bad Judge” is Bad
By Tracy Thomas
ABA, Women Lawyers Group Asks NBC to Canceel "Bad Judge," A Show About an Unethical, Lazy Female JuristThe Miami-Dade chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers has asked NBC…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Cosmopolitan’s Editor Discusses Double-Standards for Men
By John Kang
In the New Republic, the EIC of Cosmpolitan said: I think that women's lives are multilayered. I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.…