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Stop telling me what to think! - By Louis-Philippe Otis

“You are fake news!” “ The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People.” “All those people in the back are fake news.” Since the 2016 elections and with the growing rise of populism around the world, we have heard these sentence time and time again. While the first two of the above quotes can be attributed to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, the third is from a “news anchor”, Sean Hannity. What strikes me is there seems to be a consensus among conservative intellectuals around the fact that the news media is biased and not reporting the news objectively. While this question can be debated over issues such as coverage time and content disparities between different news stations, these allegations against the free press are truly damning and dangerous for the very core of our democracy. As this is a never-ending debate, we must wonder ourselves: Who is the media? What is the free press and who can we consider a journalist? Is opinion journalism a true form of jo...

Due Tomorrow? Do Tomorrow. - By Emily Oulousian

Due Tomorrow? Do Tomorrow.  Tomorrow. / təˈmôrō / (noun). The day after today, also known as the day where all of student productivity, study and inspiration strikes. We have all rewarded ourselves with hours on the Internet after studying math for twenty minutes. We have all gone on Youtube to watch a Ted Talk for gym class and, 3 hours later, caught ourselves watching a tutorial on how to talk to hippos.