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		<title>The Press that cried, “Wolf!” The press created the public indifference about the Obama Freedom of the Press violations.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[freedom of the press]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re probably familiar with The Boy That Cried Wolf. The story of a boy who kept yelling out a false alarm about a wolf attack in his village only to be eventually ignored and not believed when an actual wolf attacks. If you&#8217;re not, the press is. In fact, they&#8217;re living it. As an industry, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The CEO of Abercrombie &amp; Fitch’s discriminatory marketing strategy is so right, yet oh so wrong.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abercrombie & Fitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ceo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clothes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cook kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Jeffries]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.intellectualbubblegum.com/?p=6288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mike Jeffries, CEO of retail clothier Abercrombie &#38; Fitch got into trouble when he explained his strategy for marketing his stores and clothes&#8230; “In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids. Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When internships are abused to acquire skills, not teach them.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skills]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.intellectualbubblegum.com/?p=6276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More and more businesses are taking too much advantage of internships. Mutating this concept by having interns now doing jobs the organization: 1) can’t do but is critical to operations  2) doesn’t want to pay a lot for 3) and have the ability to quickly eject them after the work skills they valued are no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Colbert’s commencement speech hits UVA students hard, in the funny bone.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Commencement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Colbert]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Colbert: &#8220;…you do not owe the previous generation anything. Thanks to us, you owe it to the Chinese.”  Watch and hear this and more during Steven Colbert&#8217;s commencement speech to UVA. Brilliantly witty.]]></description>
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		<title>The IRS Tea Party scandal is dead. Long live the IRS Tea Party scandal!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[analysis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.intellectualbubblegum.com/?p=6270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The revelation that IRS agents decidedly singled out and scrutinized Tea Party groups is just beginning. Oh, not because it&#8217;s really a scandal. As the initial outrage and eye-catching headlines subside, we see that no real damage has been done nor a true crime has been committed. According the reports, in the wake of groups [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College graduates, your first day at your new job explained in just one picture.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Funny]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the world of the entry level employee! &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>How Facebook settings updates work (I mean, annoy) in real life. [Video]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 12:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy settings]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.intellectualbubblegum.com/?p=6257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As much as Facebook loves to share, it also loves to change your privacy settings (usually lowering them) under the banner of upgrades. This video by ExtremelyDecentFilms captures this frustration so well. &#160; &#160; &#160; ExtremelyDecentFilms]]></description>
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		<title>Start the clock: “Your boy Obama” is a phrase that will be laughed at as racist in about 20 years.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boy media]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.intellectualbubblegum.com/?p=6246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With no exaggeration, I&#8217;ve heard this phrase, &#8220;Your boy Obama&#8221; thrown in my direction at least 20 times by more than half as many people. To use it in a sentence, it&#8217;s delivered like &#8220;Your boy Obama did (whatever ticked them off).&#8221; Though most are guessing because I&#8217;m black, Yes, I did vote for him. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“The NFL isn’t ready for gay players,” say players who must be ready when QB calls a play into motion.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 18:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[football]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.intellectualbubblegum.com/?p=6240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a comment  about NBA player Jason Collins disclosing that he&#8217;s gay, former NFL player Hines Ward said that he thinks many of his NFL colleagues would find an openly gay football player too much to handle. &#8220;I don’t think football is ready, there’s too many guys in the locker room and, you know, guys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The media’s double standard in religious extremist coverage.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[relgion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relgious extremist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.intellectualbubblegum.com/?p=6231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Media, you already have a successful template for covering the intersection of Islam,terror and violence like that of the Boston bombings. Right now, you only use for just one religion. It’s the template the media uses for coverage of Christianity related violence and extremism. When it comes to radical groups within Christianity, such groups are [...]]]></description>
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