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Ten Twitter Accounts Worth Following
One of my first assignments for my commentary and blogging students is to have them put together a post of 10 Twitter feeds worth following. Overall, I want them to be the kind of people who would be of value … Continue reading
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Tagged 2021, jmc 406, twitter
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
What is Rachel Maddow going to be doing going forward? Hint: It’s not going to be business as usual at MSNBC. If you pay any attention to the cable news business, you will know that Rachel Maddow is the only … Continue reading
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Tagged Jeopardy, Questions worth asking, Rachel Maddow, Rolling Stones
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Ignoring partisan rhetoric, what is critical race theory? Making sense out of what critical race theory (CRT) is and is not, Part II
There’s been an awful lot of loose talk about “critical race theory” (CRT) and how it is being taught in everywhere from grade school to college. Most of the people who use the term have little idea what CRT actually … Continue reading
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Tagged critical r, critical theory, CRT, cultural theory, what is critical race theory
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Making sense out of what critical race theory (CRT) is and is not – Meet critical theory
There’s been an awful lot of loose talk about “critical race theory” (CRT) and how it is being taught in everywhere from grade school to college. Most of the people who use the term have little idea what CRT actually … Continue reading
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Tagged critical race theory, critical theory, CRT, cultural theory, what is critical race theory
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In The Heights, Returning to Theaters, and the Importance of Representation
While I’ve always been a big fan of action and sci-fi flicks, the movie I’ve been most excited about seeing this summer has been Lin-Manuel Miranda’s (Hamilton) and Jon Chu’s (Crazy Rich Asians) musical extravaganza In The Heights. In the Heights … Continue reading
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Tagged HBO Max, Lin-Manuel Miranda, movies, race, Warner Brothers
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Riding with Team Strange – Fun with Motorcycles
For the last six or seven years, every summer I do a national-scale motorcycle scavenger hunt run by a motorcycle club out of Minnesota known as Team Strange. Each year it has a theme. One of my favorites was “On … Continue reading
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Tagged 2021 motorcycle trips, motorcycle, Team Strange
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Bezos, Jeff Bezos Meets Bond, James Bond – Reconfiguring the Media Landscape Part 1
Huge transitions and consolidations are happening in the media business right now as the COVID pandemic winds down. We’re going to take a look at a number of these changes over the next week or so. Today we start with … Continue reading
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Time to reboot after pandemic spring
For the last few months I’ve been down to posting about once a month with everything going on. Now that the semester is over it’s time to get back to thinking about where our media have wandered off over the … Continue reading
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Tagged Disney, Hamilton, Mandalorian, Streaming television, video rental
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Guest Blog Post: The other George Floyd story: How media freedom led to conviction in his killer’s trial
Editor’s Note: Thanks to my friend Dr. Michael Socolow, University of Maine, for letting me reprint his article from The Conversation. Near v. Minnesota is such an important media law case that highlights the importance of defending unpopular speech. When … Continue reading
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Is Broadcast TV Done and Over? Or is it Just Awards Shows?
Last evening I was reading reading CNN’s Brian Stelter’s nightly media news newsletter that had just shown up in my mailbox. The lead story was about how television habits have changed during the pandemic. Stelter notes that one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged broadcast television, earthquake in slow motion, Grammy awards, John Prine, recorded music, television, WAP
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