CURRENCY OF CYNICS

I switched majors during my freshman year at SUNY Oneonta. I was thinking of transferring to film school, so I began to study Mass Communication. One of the first courses I took with my new major was Intro to Mass Communications. My professor, Jon Arakaki, opened his day-one lecture by asking us this question: are you a media cynic or a media critic? I might not be quoting it exactly right, but the gist of it is there. The goal of the class was to encourage us to be critical thinkers when it com...