by Stephanie Kraft | Sep 18, 2008 | News
When I started work at the Advocate in 1974, just a year after its founding, I became part of a motley crew with a passionate interest in news and arts and very little training in journalism. Our tiny staff included two reporters: Preston Gralla, who ran around the...
by our readers | Sep 18, 2008 | News
I've lived here in Easthampton my entire lifetime. I've seen a lot of changes over the years and, for the past 35 of those years, I've relied on the Advocate to provide arts and entertainment information, news coverage, and an alternative viewpoint on some...
by Kendra Thurlow | Sep 18, 2008 | News
Being an intern is a curious thing. You work long hard hours for no pay, get little to no respect—and if you're really lucky, you actually learn something. I was one of the lucky ones. As an intern at a newspaper, you do the grunt work—opening mail,...
by Do-Han Allen | Sep 18, 2008 | News
I've been thinking a lot about my home in Alaska recently as I prepared for this 35th anniversary issue of the Valley Advocate. Not because our moose-whackin' governor has got the Republican right all excited. I've been thinking about real Alaskans. Real...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser and Stephanie Kraft | Sep 18, 2008 | News
Sut Jhally Questions AssumptionsWhen teaching at the University of Massachusetts, Sut Jhally, founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation (MEF), says that he works inside and outside academia to help people think critically. "The most...
