Erin K. O'Neill

I'm a journalist.

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In order to help you understand whether or not "Clue" passes the Bechdel Test, I shall need to take you through the criteria of the test, step by step.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is exactly what it sounds like: A girl, named Buffy Summers, slays vampires and demons and wages war against evil supernatural forces. The major complicating factor? She’s a blonde, fashion-and-boy-obsessed California high school student who becomes a social outcast because of her secret identity and nighttime activities.

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Let’s talk about women and professional ambition. But first, let’s talk about our first impression of Meredith Grey.

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In the summer of 2017, I turned a popular listicle the newsroom created for a special section into an Instagram contest to boost our following on the platform. Read about the winner here.

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It’s still summer — so do nothing | The Daily Gazette

Spending a day doing nothing requires preparation. A “quick trip” to the store can easily turn into…

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In 2016, I led a team that produced a series of musical performances in The Daily Gazette’s archives. We booked local bans, created videos of their sets, profiled them in the newspaper, and created a special site for the project.

Watch all the videos on YouTube.

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High voter turnout is not the only advantage of compulsory voting. For example, enacting compulsory voting in the U.S. could turn political dialogue away from the extremes of all sides.  Moreover, incidents of voter disenfranchisement and voter suppression, in its many nefarious forms, could potentially become a thing of the past.

“Compulsory voting for all,” The Columbia Missourian, April 7, 2010

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Roe v. Wade said women have the constitutional right to choose an abortion. It’s controversial, and it wasn’t as explicitly stated as freedom of speech, but it is unfair to deny public money to protect this right. Furthermore, the Hyde Amendment punishes women who can’t afford to choose to terminate a pregnancy.

“Denying public money to fund abortion unfair,” The Columbia Missourian, Sept. 9, 2009.

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I have one overarching life philosophy: When in doubt, do as the Australians do. The Aussies have fashioned themselves a very nice, if not perfect, health care system.  It merges the benefits of a government-run universal insurance and care scheme with the flexibility and choice of private insurance rather successfully.

“Health care’s better Down Under,” The Columbia Missourian, August 1, 2009.

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And here’s the kicker: no matter how right I know I am, no matter how well I think I’ve thought out my points, no matter how very wrong my father is, my dad backs me into a rhetorical corner and all is lost. There is no second place, only surrender, in our battlefield of world and political outlooks. My dad always wins.

“A little debate is a healthy thing,” The Columbia Missourian, June 17, 2009

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While the Ann Arbor News was beset by the same problems that pretty much every paper in the industry is currently suffering, the shock is that Booth Newspapers, a subsidiary of Advance Publications, decided not to cut the number of print publications and furlough journalists to maintain profits, but to abolish the News altogether and start fresh. And now, my beloved hometown of Ann Arbor, Mich., is the first major U.S. municipality to be completely without a newspaper.

“A town without a newspaper,” The Columbia Missourian, June 21, 2010