It's Not Funny

"A Letter to the Editor: The Pain of Going Public with Domestic Violence." The College Hill Independent, 26 February 2009.

This piece was originally conceived as a Week in Review (read: brief news analysis) about the Rihanna/Chris Brown domestic violence incident, which ended up being too long to be a snappy WIR but too short to really evaluate the issues present inside. Because of the opinionated tone, it got slapped with the title of "Letter to the Editor" but was still printed on the news page. Oy.

Needless to say, I don't know what the heck it is now. I feel like there's a lot of good stuff in here that I didn't have the room (or the expertise or chops) to expand on. The media's treatment of domestic violence is something that deserves a much more serious treatment than a third of a page can do, and something I'd like to approach in the future.

In other news, I've written other stuff this semester, but it's not online yet. It'll be posted and backdated soon. I do hereby solemnly swear to update a bit more regularly, as well. Promises, promises...