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Ebola has come to the United States. And, with the Ebola diagnosis of a man in Dallas who had traveled to this country from Africa, the frightening Ebola…

It's a story that's been dominating media coverage -- top to bottom -- from mainstream media to social media and everything in between.Baltimore Ravens…

There's no doubt in anybody's mind that the beheadings of American journalists by ISIS extremists is news.But the distribution of videos of those…

Why did Amazon just pay a billion dollars cash for a website most people have never heard of -- twitch.tv?And, for that matter, what they heck is…

Rioting in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson -- after an unarmed teenager was shot to death by police -- has brought media attention the likes of which…

It's just a journalism class. But the syllabus for this once a week class at Boston University went viral.No doubt that is, in part, because it is being…

Is seven million views on the internet more punishment than being charged with stealing?That's the thinking of a man who caught two women stealing his…

Are internet comments sections the new town square, or cesspools of racism, sexism and worse?Whenever you scroll down through a comments section, at some…

When you want to know something about somebody or something and do an internet search, where do you most often end up?Is it Wikipedia?The online,…

The White House recently released a Task Force report on sexual assault on college campuses, saying one-in-five women on college campuses are sexually…

New York Times Columnist Maureen Dowd was in the state of Colorado a while back, a state that has legalized the recreational use of marijuana.She decided…

Twenty-two-year old Elliot Roger killed six people in a rampage in Santa Barbara, California.It was a rampage predicted by a series of YouTube videos and…