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Posted in Multimedia News on Oct 15th, 2008
The Journalism & New Media class at the University of Denver is producing a series of multimedia stories designed to address the question, “How are today’s students affected by the global market - and by globalization in general?” This topic grows out of our concerns about the current global financial crisis and about U.S. policies [...]
Posted in Multimedia News on Oct 2nd, 2008
The financial crisis is bringing today’s generation of students back to a time before they (or we) were all born. The financial crisis is affecting young adults who have yet to enter the work force because they have to find jobs when there aren’t many openings. According to the Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama in an [...]
Posted in Multimedia News on Oct 2nd, 2008
Comparisons between the current economic crisis and the Great Depression may be exaggerated thus far given that unemployment during the 1930s was at 25% and currently unemployment in the U.S. stands at 6% and declining according to the BBC.
Another big difference between now and the great depression is the FDIC, which did not exist during [...]
Posted in Multimedia News on Sep 30th, 2008
Markets around the world are reacting to the recent events in the U.S. markets. Brazilian newspapers are reporting that oil prices are down. This is bad for Brazil, but good for the U.S., as The Gazeta Mercantil reports: “Brazilian exporters have started to be affected by the global credit shortage. The sector relies on Advances [...]
Posted in Multimedia News on Sep 30th, 2008
The economic crisis in the U.S. has not only affected American citizens, but it has had major implications for the rest of the world.
“It’s not fair for Latin American, African and Asian countries to pay for the irresponsibility of sectors of the American financial system,” the president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva [...]
Posted in Multimedia News on Sep 25th, 2008
In an article featured on BBC in mid-March of 2008, Republican Presidential nominee Sen. John McCain called for a progress toward peace, but still acts as an advocate for retaliation.
McCain expressed sympathy for the people of Israel after rocket attacks by Palestinian militant groups and reaffirmed his commitment to Israel. McCain then went on [...]
Posted in Multimedia News on Sep 25th, 2008
With Republican presidential nominee John McCain beating him in the polls, Democratic nominee Barack Obama took time yesterday to connect McCain to unpopular president George W. Bush and strongly criticize Bush’s decision to remove only 8,000 troops from Iraq by February.
An MSNBC Online article, Obama rejects Bush Iraq Withdrawal Plan, outlines Obama’s attack on [...]
Posted in Multimedia News on Sep 25th, 2008
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In March of this year Presidential Nominee John McCain spoke with the Jerusalem Post in an interview that the British newspaper the Telegraph reprinted. In this interview McCain openly discussed his views on the Hamas and Hizbollah. He termed them not only a threat for Israel and the Middle East, but a serious [...]
Posted in Multimedia News on Sep 25th, 2008
The Hindustan Times reported on Obama’s speech at the DNC on August, 29. In part of the speech, Obama defended his policy in the middle east from attacks by McCain. Obama is moving in the right direction by showing how hewill use military force when necessary, but wants to get out Iraq in a responsible [...]
Posted in Multimedia News on Sep 25th, 2008
Article from the Times Online London: “McCain: I will win Iraq, kill bin Laden, and start President’s Question Time” In May of this year, John McCain predicted that by the end of his first term as President, he would have won the war in Iraq, killed Osama bin Laden, halted the nuclear ambitions [...]