Category Archives: Chapter 14

Stories of hope from the insurrection, Part 6

The violent insurrection in Washington, D.C.  Wednesday was both utterly predictable and unimaginable. My feelings about those events go well beyond the scope of this blog, so instead of laying out my feelings, I’m going to share a variety of … Continue reading

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Front Pages: Stories from the insurrection, Part 5

The violent insurrection in Washington, D.C.  Wednesday was both utterly predictable and unimaginable. My feelings about those events go well beyond the scope of this blog, so instead of laying out my feelings, I’m going to share a variety of … Continue reading

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Newspaper Editorials: Stories from the insurrection, Part 4

The violent insurrection in Washington, D.C.  Wednesday was both utterly predictable and unimaginable. My feelings about those events go well beyond the scope of this blog, so instead of laying out my feelings, I’m going to share a variety of … Continue reading

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Twitter and the Death of a Basketball Legend

As everyone knows, basketball legend Kobe Bryant and several others, including one of his daughters, died in a helicopter crash on Sunday. Without further comment, here’s a number of Tweets that have discussed the flow of news about this tragedy. Retweeting here … Continue reading

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Return to “Is There Ever Grace For Being Stupid on Social Media?”

You may have seen the heartwarming story about  Carson King, a young man who held up a sign at a recent University of Iowa / Iowa State University football game soliciting beer money. The sign, seen on ESPN’s GameDay, went … Continue reading

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How Should Brands Remember 9/11 in Social Media?

The events of Sept. 11, 2001, have left scars on the United States, and indeed the entire world.  And it is only natural to respond to those intense feelings every year on what is now observed as Patriot Day. The … Continue reading

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Return to Bed Bugs, NYT & Thin-Skinned Columnists

When last we met, NY Times columnist Bret Stephens was being mocked on the Internet for complaining rather publicly about Dr. David Karpf, a relatively unknown associate professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University making a mostly … Continue reading

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Media Twitter: On Bed Bugs, the NYT and thin-skinned columnists

Updated 8/28/19 It all started with a story on Slate Monday noting that several locations in the New York Times building were infested with bed bugs. This led to the following tweet from NY Times visual journalism director Stuart Thompson: “Breaking – there are … Continue reading

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Everything can be Explained by Hamilton: Politicians and Media, Then and Now

The thin-skinned president who made it illegal to criticize his office – John Adams, not Donald Trump — WaPo https://t.co/nH5W6HHN1E — RalphIsNow@rhanson40@threads.net (@ralphehanson) August 24, 2019 People who say we’ve never had politics before like we do today are just … Continue reading

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Disney and other major studios getting cold feet about “Y’allywood”

The state of Georgia is a major location for filming big-budget movies with a government willing to hand out substantial tax credits to studios and a large movie production infrastructure (thanks in part to African American movie mogul Tyler Perry). … Continue reading

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