First NCA Blog

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This is a blog for my summer elective course News and Current Affairs focusing mainly on gender and sexuality in current affairs. The normal thing to do would be to check if this works. Oh the dramas of being computer-illiterate!

So far, we're just browsing the internet databases for some uber-interesting articles on this topic. I got the SMH today and there was this article on how this group of uni bums (such as myself) decided to make a calender based on the erotic bits of the Bible (not like myself, thankfully). Luckily, I managed to find a link to it via the SMH website. I think this particular commentary on the issue of gender and sexuality in NCA is great - it challenges the basic ideals surrounding the Bible and the values imbedded in these beliefs. Of course, this overlaps with the issue of religion, but I'll just focus on the role of sexuality in both commercialism and the ways in which it affects news and current affairs.

In this regard (now I'm speaking like an essay), the sexuality in the presentation of this issue, especially in the SMH is obvious - HELLO long-haired topless chick in full colour photograph. No wonder its one of today's most viewed articles.

That's all I can physically comment on for now - iMacs and Netscape rate highly on my list of all things rad. Not.