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Sept. 11, 2001 retrospective
I’ve been tweeting a lot this last week or two about 9/11 coverage. Here’s a collection of items based on those tweets. Newseum Newspaper Front Page Archive The Newseum posts the front pages of newspapers from around the world on … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 14
Tagged 9/11, ethics, newspapers, photography, television, twitter
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Ch. 2 Link – John Adams – On The Transmigration of Souls
You can listen to an interview with composer John Adams where he talks about is Pulitzer Prize-winning composition about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, “On The Transmigration of Souls.” The interview aired on NPR on Sept. 20, 2011. And here’s … Continue reading
A Motorcycle Ride to the United 93 Memorial on a Rainy Summer Day
This has nothing to do with the media. It’s a brief story about a ride I took on my motorcycle to the United 93 Memorial on a rainy June day back in 2004. It was written shortly after I had … Continue reading
It’s a small, small world…
Erik, my oldest son, views study abroad as an all-you-can-eat buffet. He went to Germany when he was 16 as a high school exchange student; he did a study abroad through University of Nebraska at Kearney in Rostock, Germany; and … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 15, Uncategorized
Tagged Because I can, global media, mobile media, social media
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What makes a great movie quote great?
There’s been a discussion going on via my local movie theater’s Facebook page about people’s favorite movie quotes. I gave a lot of thought to the question before making my post. I’m not like those folks who cheat and put … Continue reading
Movie Images of the Twin Towers
Before 9/11, the silhouette of the twin towers of the World Trade Center were one of the quickest ways movie makers had of establishing that we were looking at the NYC skyline. Here’s a beautiful collection of WTC skylines edited by … Continue reading
A Song For Labor Day
Phil Ochs singing his classic “Power and Glory.” A great song for the true meaning of Labor Day.
Great 9/11 Television Archive
The Internet Archive has posted an absolutely mesmerizing archive of television coverage of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Starting at 8 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 11 (when the first of the hijacked planes took off from Boston), … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 14, Chapter 9, Uncategorized
Tagged 9/11, ethics, television
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Jimmy Buffett “Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season”
A Jimmy Buffett song for this weekend. Stay safe, East Coasters.
Oil Company PR – Talk only when you have to
Mike Marn of the blog Marn’s Market sent me this story about Exxon working hard to keep a major oil discovery in the Gulf secret until it was forced to reveal it. The PR News website quotes PR professor Judith … Continue reading