Click here for another video It is difficult for one to describe the inner culture of a company as an outsides, but what I can describe is the dramatic power switch within The Washington Post after it was purchased by Jeff Bezos. As the video describes, after the purchase and sale of the old headquarters, […]
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It’s Always Political in DC
Click Here to View Here in the Google Satellite Image you can see the exterior of the new headquarters of The Washington Post. Often times it is described as high end real estate housing some of the biggest business players. Before The Washington Post put up their grand logo, on three different parts of the […]
Featured All Around the Capital
Selecting The Washington Post as my focus site, I knew I would most likely be discussing the relationship between the audience and the newspaper as well as the relocation of the headquarters. Then I began thinking about the one thing that connects and represents all of those aspects on the newspaper. It hit me: what […]
Why do we exit through the gift shop?
This is a film about a street artist who promotes social consents through the means of a medium which some consider to be vandalism. With our class of complex ecologies there are several concepts that come up over and over again, such as commonplaces, relationships between locations and their inhabitants, and the uproar brought upon […]
Katherine Graham and What the Washington Post is About Now
Davis, Deborah. Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and her Washington Post Empire. 3rd ed., Sheridan Square Press, 1991. Background and Argument: In Deborah Davis’ biography, Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and her Washington Post Empire, she tells the story of Katharine Graham and how she built The Washington Post to be the nation newspaper we […]
Annotated Bibliography 7&8
“Phil’s Stock World.” Phil’s Stock World [Phil’s Stock World – BLOG]; Chatham, 1 Jan. 2017. In Phil’s Stock World article regarding the Washington Post being caught spreading fake news about “Russian Hackers,” the article focuses on the questionable credibility of the national news source. Argument: This source helps my research by providing an argumentative viewpoint […]
Puppets with a Darker Meaning
This past weekend I was visiting my friend from high school and one night we were really bored and stumbled upon a series of videos on YouTube called “Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared.” When I first watched it, I didn’t think much of it because the concept didn’t make sense at first glance and simply […]
The Washington Post Needed to Upgrade
Looking at the images of the new headquarters of the Washington Post, I can’t help but wonder if the newly installed interactive technology enough to make up for the atmosphere of the old, yet monumental, headquarters? In some way it is understandable to renovate the floor plan of the headquarters into a more technologically advanced […]
Seeking Common Ground
In David Flemings’ book, City of Rhetoric, he explores the meaning of a common place and the Edward Soja’s sociospatial dialectic. He defines commonplaces as places “ that could balance our often-conflicting needs for unity and diversity, accessibility and power, belonging and anonymity” (Fleming 180). In other words, it is any physical location or structure that […]
Home Shouldn’t Have to be Temporary
Seven: Home: 1230 North Burling Street Fleming opens the discussion with the previously analyzed proposals of suburbia and new urbanism and then transitions into the additional proposal of homes, using a widely believed statement; which explains that the poor are placed into a designated location in order to “prevent their exerting power” (Fleming 149). The […]