Samuel's Journalism 120 Blog

     This past Thursday, Halifax Judge Gregory Lenehan acquitted yet another cab driver of sexual assault. The provincial judge ruled that Houssen Milad could walk free.  Vice News  reported that although Lenehan believed the complainant was sexually assaulted in the summer of 2016, there was Crown had failed to prove that Milad was responsible. A  Metro News reporter  who was in court for the ruling stated that the judge"slammed the Crown for doing a “disservice” to the complainant and the community by failing to conduct a proper investigation." Lenehan has a long-standing history of acquittals and sexual assault cases. In March, he also acquitted cab driver Bassam Al-Rawi of two alleged sexual assaults, the first of which involved a woman so intoxicated that she was passed out in the back of his cab. However, despite her having a blood alcohol level between 223 and 244 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, roughly three times the lega...

    Roughly 327 years ago, a Boston printer by the name of Benjamin Harris produced the first issue of  Publick Occurrences : the first newspaper of Britain's North American Colonies. Fast forward to the present, and the news is everywhere. It's all over the place, whether it be on social media, television, and can even be found at your local grocery stores. While the media may not be held in the same regard as it was in the 17th century, it definitely has changed for the better.      In 1690, "no person [was to] keep any printing-press for printing, nor [was] any book, pamphlet or other matter whatsoever" to be printed without the governor's "special leave and license first obtained. Basically, it was illegal to publish anything without the governments' approval, something Harris hadn't obtained. The people were ecstatic to have an outlet from which they could acquire the news; the governor, not so much. Within days, the governor and council ...