Recently two well-known political pundits have faced scrutiny. Alex Jones of the conspiracy site Infowars and Bill O'Reilly from Fox News. Both are political pundits, which are different than reporters/journalists. As such, they do not always follow actual journalism ethics.  (More on reporters vs pundits:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/while-pundits-swooned-over-trumps-speech-reporters-plugged-away-at-the-real-story/2017/03/02/582cf4da-ff69-11e6-8f41-ea6ed597e4ca_story.html?utm_term=.5301d6ab68f2 ). While Bill O'Reilly is losing his job at Fox due partially to the sexual harassment scandals and financial reasons, Jones in the middle of a messy divorce had his lawyer state that he just a "performance artist", or more easily understood as an actor with an artistic purpose. Yet his site "infowars" is mistaken as fact by readers. This is not a new concept. Stephen Colbert played a "Character" when working on Comedy Central. T...

Female:pressure, an international enclave of female electronica artist,  has launched an awareness and solidarity campaign for the cantons of # Rojava (located in northern Syria ), where women participate on all levels of decision making and building a new society from scratch, with built-in social, racial and ethnic justice, religious freedom, ecological principles and gender equality. Yet, even as members of female:pressure discussed how they as artists flung far across the globe could do more to help the Kurdish community of women, disheartening news of invasion and death brought about a discussion on the role of the artist in world events. After all, how could a simple soundcloud page with songs written by women who are not of the Rojava community enact real change when a global political tsunami hits?  And that is probably one of the greatest questions of the artist today. In a world where tweets matter more than action, the media glorifying hatred and sensation...