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Kathleen Parker for my commentary students – 2013
Updated 3/6/18 My commentary and blogging students are reading Kathleen Parker for class this week. She’s one of my favorite columnists because she is always challenging conventional labels. No Dreaded Talking Points from Parker! Class (and everyone else) here are … Continue reading
Media News Roundup
Hawaii passes Steven Tyler Act Would ban “unwanted photos or videos of others in private moments.” Nice idea, but do celebs really get the right to say “pay attention to me now, but not now”? How Sen. Rand Paul used … Continue reading
Mass Communication and Fear Readings
Next week I’m going to be guest lecturing in a class about the nature of fear. So hear are several readings that deal with the notion of how we deal with fear and the media: George Gerbner on why we … Continue reading
Pop Culture Charley – Handicapping the Oscars
Charley Reed has done enough guest blog posts here that I’m no longer going to consider him a guest poster. Instead, I’m going to put his great commentaries on pop media culture under the heading Charley’s Pop Culture. Here are … Continue reading
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What to do on a snow day in media literacy class
To all the faculty out there who are teaching an intro to mass comm / media literacy class, here’s an idea for a quicky online snow day assignment built off the great Pew Project Excellence in Journalism State of the … Continue reading
Columnists for my commentary class – 2013
Here are links to a number of columnists and columnist index pages from newspapers around the country for my commentary writing students, and anyone else who’s interested. National Columnists Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist. His column written in response … Continue reading
Guest Post – Do the Oscars Really Matter?
Today’s guest post is from Charley Reed, who does public relations work of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He’s also the guy I turn to when I need critical analysis of pop culture issues such as censorship and the show South … Continue reading
Is Carnival cruising for a PR bruising?
Updated By now, virtually everyone in America knows about the mess that is the Carnival cruise ship Triumph. The ship suffered an engine fire earlier this week that resulted in the ship being without electricity and drifting in the Gulf … Continue reading
Comcast completing purchase of NBCUniversal from GE years ahead of schedule
The transition of NBCUniversal from being owned primarily by General Electric to Comcast had been expected to be an extended process, with the cable and phone giant gradually acquiring the entertainment company’s stock. But that changed this week with the … Continue reading