Greetings! My name is Jimmy Williams and I'd like to welcome everyone to my new blog "From the Eyes of a College Conservative"!
To provide some background information about myself, I am currently 19 years old and I am a sophomore at the University of Maryland, College Park. I live on campus and I am a Journalism and Finance double major. I work with WMUC Sports here on campus and I host a weekly sports talk show, Metro Sports Talk, on Thursday nights at 6pm. You can listen to that every week via the Internet at wmucsports.com. This semester I am on the Field Hockey broadcast crew which is a lot of fun. Maryland's field hockey team is the two-time defending national champion and this season the girls already have a 6-1 record and are ranked 4th in the country. Last year I worked with the women's basketball team during the winter and the softball team in the spring.
I've been listening to talk radio since I was six years old. I remember dancing to the Rush Limbaugh intro music when I was that little because I thought it was cool. At age 12, I called into the Sean Hannity Show and actually got on air to talk about how my 7th grade social studies teacher was lying to my class about why the U.S. was involved in the war in Iraq. I've been seriously into politics since probably 2006 and at the age of 17 I got very active in the 2010 campaign of Bob Ehrlich to try and kick Martin O'Malley out of the Maryland Governor's Mansion. This past summer, I interned at Talk Radio 680 WCBM in Baltimore with Sean and Frank in the Morning, working with them two days a week from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. It was loads of fun and my work there has really made me want to get into political commentary and I see a blog such as this one as a perfect way to start out.
The Diamondback is the main student newspaper here on campus, with a circulation of around 13,000 at last check, even though there are nearly 40,000 students on this campus between undergrad and grad. The paper has a clear liberal bias on everything from their editorials to their news. They have 2 conservative columnists but every time they publish a piece, they are attacked by the campus community at large. I myself have written at least six guest columns in my time here at Maryland to try and counter the liberal bias but none have been published. My submissions were never even noticed apparently.
Since I refuse to write for the trash that is The Diamondback, I write for a much smaller, monthly news magazine called The Terrapin Times. we adverstise ourselves as a conservative alternative to The Diamondback, especially with our opinions section. Unfortunately we can only publish once a month at the most and only print about 1,500 copies compared to The Diamondback's 13,000 daily. We do publish online as well at umdtimes.com.
And now to the point of the blog. From the Eyes of a College Conservative will be a blog about the hot poltical issues of the week as I see them as a college student. I think readers will really enjoy my insight into political issues, maybe they'll even see something they've never seen before. In fact I hope people do learn new things here. My initial goal is to publish this blog twice a week. I'm going to aim for Tuesday and Friday, with the new post being online by 6pm on those days. If I have more time, I'll try to add a third publication day but we'll start with Tuesdays and Fridays by 6pm for now. Hopefully people actually read this and I'm excited to get started!
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