Monthly Archives: February 2011

Another great national anthem

Here’s Straight, No Chaser doing the national anthem at Soldiers Field before the Packers/Bears game.  Another brilliant rendition:

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Super Bowl – The Day After

The nation’s most important day for television advertising has passed, a football game got played, and now the analysis begins.  Here’s a few thoughts on yesterday’s event: In my mind, and many others, the one clearly best commercial of the … Continue reading

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Link Ch. 15 – Al Jazeera Arabic carrying video of police running over protesters

In my commentary and blogging course today, we were talking about how Al Jazeera English differs from what Americans are typically used to seeing on television.  One of my students said he watched AJE for about 15 minutes yesterday and … Continue reading

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Different sources of news about Egypt

Want to see how different media outlets are covering the news out of Egypt?  Here’s your chance to compare and contrast for yourself:  Sounds like that could be a great media literacy assignment…. Suggestions of sources to add or potential … Continue reading

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