November 3, 2009
October 25, 2009
Asher Roth love success, his fans … and college
When you hear the name Asher Roth, so many nights of mayhem might swarm to your mind faster than college kids to a South Oakland house party.
But this popular West Chester, Pa.-based rapper will be the first to tell you — he’s so much more than that.
“People are quick to write you off as a one-hit wonder, but there’s a person underneath all this. It’s not just ‘I Love College,’” Roth said.
Having grown up in a middle-class family in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Roth brings a unique point of view to his subject matter every time he approaches the microphone. Street violence and hip-hop culture were not salient influences in Roth’s childhood, so these topics are not a focus in the music he puts out today.
Roth’s online mixtape, The Greenhouse Effect, hosted by DJ Drama and DJ Don Cannon, includes songs like “Black Mags,” which is a comical and relatable recap of his youth. Other tracks, such as “Just Listen,” take a more serious tone and call for us to look past politics, race, religion and other outside factors to see people for what they are — fellow human beings, our peers. (more…)
June 27, 2009
TMZ rocks Michael Jackson Coverage
SOON TO BE ADDED TO THE NEWSEUM EXHIBIT IN D.C.
The Scoop on Instant News
By Bridget Gutierrez, exhibits writer
The first news report of music icon Michael Jackson’s shocking death was not broadcast through the mainstream media but by TMZ.com, a celebrity gossip Web site.
TMZ’s scoop sent traditional news outlets scrambling to confirm the news. In its June 26 edition, the Los Angeles Times credited TMZ with getting the story on Jackson’s hospitalization and for beating by seven minutes the Times’s own Internet report of the superstar’s sudden death.
After TMZ’s report, news of Jackson’s death spread quickly through the digital universe. Traffic on Facebook and Google soared. Twitter was so overwhelmed with user posts that the site was reported to have crashed repeatedly.
“We saw an instant doubling of tweets per second the moment the story broke,” Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told the Times. Stone called it the most dramatic jump in Twitter usage since Barack Obama won the presidential election last fall.
May 12, 2009
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