By Jeremy Lucas | Documentary, Investigation
If you’re wondering where I’ve been the past few months, the answer is two-fold. First off, I’ve been living the life of a normal American who works a full-time minimum wage job at a popular fast-food chain. Secondly, I’ve been involved in the making of a documentary. Sure, it was basically made as a glorified class
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By Jeremy Lucas | Documentary, Investigation
As a medium, film has always given its viewer and maker the power to find truths about humanity by recording it and distributing it for an interested audience. But for the first few decades of its existence, these truths were contained in a fictional version of life. It wasn’t until the 1920s when people like
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By Jeremy Lucas | Investigation, Media, Politics
The Facebook event says some 200 people are going to be there to Occupy Boone. I arrive and maybe 50 are there, with another 30-50 arriving by the time we actually start marching. The weather, to put it lightly, is miserable. 35 degrees, and rainy. It’s also a Friday, which means that everybody has the
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By Jeremy Lucas | Investigation, Media, Politics
My cousin in the Bronx, he knows everyone. And he said start the revolution without me, I’ll definitely be at the next one.” – Kaiser Chiefs Last week, as a college Senior, I realized something. I’d never protested before. After all, it seems that all great college experiences and great moments of history involve a
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By Jeremy Lucas | Documentary, Media, TV
Like I said in a previous piece, Frontline is actually a good program and consistently one of the best investigative journalism programs on today. NBC’s Dateline focuses on True Crime more than anything these days (Blame Ann Curry, as she ruined the program). CBS’s 60 Minutes tackles a lot of great topics that nobody else
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