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Category Archives: Chapter 4
Obsessed fans, Iron Man, Censors, & Rush – Pop Culture Roundup
So maybe Stephen King wasn’t completely exaggerating with his obsessed fan in Misery. True Blood author Charlaine Harris has some really over-the-top fans who don’t want her to end her Sookie Sackhouse vampire series. Iron Man 3 Gets Odd Changes … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 11, Chapter 4, Chapter 7, Chapter 8
Tagged advertising, movies, radio, Rush Limbaugh
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
How did LucasFilm (Disney) exec Kathleen Kennedy get JJ Abrams to agree to direct Star Wars VII? That question is answered, along with a great look at how Kennedy went from being a PA to one of the most powerful … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 13, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 8
Tagged Disney, legal issues, movies, questions, Star Wars
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Do journalists ever leave a great story unreported? Ted Koppel knew about the story the movie Argo is based on as it happened and didn’t report it because he didn’t want the people involved to be killed. (Hollywood Reporter) How … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 4, Chapter 7
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Questions Worth Asking – Maybe
Should we long for the good old days of the Alien and Sedition Acts? A look at how our understanding of the First Amendment has changed over the years. (Lawyers, Guns & Money) What does free speech look like globally? … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 13, Chapter 15, Chapter 4
Tagged diabetes, global media, Harry Potter, media law, questions
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Books, Books, Books
This week I’m going to be talking about books in class. Here’s a link to all my recent posts about books! They include items on The Hunger Games, memoir fabrications, e-books, Amanda Hocking’s success at e-book publication, and the history of the … Continue reading
Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Will the fallout ever end for the Brits with the Murdoch/News Corp. scandals? That would be a big no. Latest word is that British Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt is going end his political career for helping News Corp. take full … Continue reading
Questioning The Hunger Games
So the movie of The Hunger Games is out, and it’s been an enormous success. Here are some questions the movie might raise: That whole death lottery things seems familiar. Haven’t I read that kind of story before? Yes, in … Continue reading
Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
I’ve been so busy putting up links to go with the upcoming 4th edition to Mass Communication: Living in a Media World that I haven’t had time to question anything lately. So here we go: Does Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander pay … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 13, Chapter 2, Chapter 4, Chapter 8, Chapter 9
Tagged advertising, books, copyright, humor, questions, Star Wars, television
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Link Ch. 4 – A Million Little Memoir Fabrications
Reprinted from my blog from January 27, 2006: A Million Little Problems Dept. – Fall Out From James Frey’s Fabrications A week or so ago I ran a guest commentary by my colleague John Temple about his outrage at the apparent fabrications … Continue reading
Posted in Book Link, Chapter 14, Chapter 4
Tagged ethics, memoir fabrications, Secret 4, Truth 4
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