Times they are a changin' (sort of)

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With some inspiration from Youth Radio’s NPR series What’s the new What? Y-Press reporters are exploring trends in culture and politics that's relevant to their generation and how this compares and even mimics the past.

These topics range from whether Lil’ Wayne is the new Bob Dylan, or is film maker Judd Apatow is modern day Woody Allen and finally is America experiencing a new kind of McCarthyism with the 2001 signing of the Patriotic Act?


3 Pieces

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Last July, Time’s online editor Josh Tyrangiel said Lil’Waynes rhymes were Dylanesque Dylanesque, as in Bob Dylan, and that got Y-Press journal...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 03:10
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In the world of film, I think Judd Apatow is the new Woody Allen.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 05:14
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In October of 2001, the US Congress passed the Patriot Act. It allows the government to monitor citizens’ communications and personal information i...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 02:44