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For my class on Media & Political Engagement, during the first semester of my masters program, I wrote a very short paper called "The Internet News Effect?," which was an exploration of the effect of online news sources on political cynicism. This was partially a response to the article "The Daily Show Effect" (Baumgartner and Morris, 2006), which attributed cynicism among viewers of The Daily Show to the show itself.

The very first paper I wrote in graduate school was really just a writing test. It was assigned in the required introductory course for the CCT program, and was really just a hook for the faculty to identify which students might need to be referred to campus writing resources. Anyway, the assignment was just to discuss, in one page, a potential problem in contemporary media systems.