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Being able to generate videos from short prompts in about a minute, OpenAI’s Sora 2 app quickly found success following its release this past September, reaching one million downloads in under 5 days according to Time Magazine. Despite the technology’s seemingly endless capabilities, the platform still laid down some ground rules–videos had a clear Sora 2 logo, consent was needed to make clips of living people, and prompts that were intentionally fraudulent, sexual, or violent would not be generated.

October 29, 2025 Avery Kachmarsky

Defunded! Elmo, Rural Coverage, Public Media at Risk

After successful efforts by Congress to defund public media, national news organizations and agencies are facing unprecedented funding challenges. These challenges threaten access to PBS and NPR, media outlets known and trusted worldwide, and the silencing of news outlets across the nation that have produced local coverage and access to beloved characters for decades.

April 2016 Opinion 2016

April 21, 2016

Media Should Adopt Universal Coverage on Terror

This begs the question, if more Americans were informed of the fighting and violence, would more demand a response?

November 2015 2015 Opinion

November 20, 2015

Kremlin Spin Doctors Need New Material

In a foreign policy manifesto published in 2012, the Russian President clearly articulated his disdain for what he is now trying to gain support for. Regarding the United States and its allies, Putin wrote, “I just can’t understand where this militaristic itch comes from.”