Press Theory & Democracy Blog

Unlike my other blogs, this one is not expressly about politics. I could talk about other current political issues that are taking place right now; however, this story really stood out to me. Starbucks is under fire once more for having their holiday cups not be red with a green Christmas tree. They came under a lot of heat on social media two years ago in 2015 when they came out with a plain red cup instead of one with a Christmas tree. I remember this like it was yesterday. I walked into my  senior AP history class and my friend Carin immediately started ranting about how terrible the Starbucks red cup was this year. She showed me that it was plain red and told me how boring that was, how much of the holiday spirit that took out of Christmas, and how she was never going to Starbucks again (or until January when the red cups disappeared). Now to put this in perspective, Carin went to Starbucks every day. I saw her come in to history pretty much every day with a Starbucks beverag

It's been a little over a month since the #MeToo movement burst out on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Since then, dozens of sexual assault allegations have popped up against many powerful men, including celebrities and politicians. For some background, the movement resulted because of a counselor that tweeted about how a little girl she once counseled to told her that she was sexually abused. The counselor couldn't bear to hear what happened to the child so she told her she couldn't help her. Later she said it was because she didn't have the courage to say me too back. The counselor tweeted this many years later and had the message that sexual assault and harassment could no longer happen and stay quiet. People needed to stop hiding what had happened to them. They needed to share their stories. But it takes a lot of courage to tell these stories. So she created the hashtag, #MeToo, so people could simply say this to say what had happened to them instead of having