For my commentary and blogging class, here are links to editorials from several major papers:
UPDATE: May, 24, 2012: On May 27, 1972, just about exactly 40 years ago today, George Carlin recorded his concert album Class Clown during a show at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Among the sketches he performed was one destined to become a classic – the “Seven Dirty Words” you can’t say on television. I honor of this, The Atlantic took a look at the lasting impact of Carlin’s routine.
What follows below is a post I put up a year or so ago about Carlin and the Seven Dirty Words:
I was lecturing today on the Seven Truths “They” Don’t Want You To Know About the Media. I got to Truth 4 – Everything from the margin moves to the center and was preparing to show two George Carlin video clips: The 7 Words You Can’t Say on Television and an excerpt from him playing Mr. Conductor on Shining Time Station. A bit of static electricity crashed my computer, so I did the rest of my lecture the old-fashioned way, but for my students (and any of the rest of you) here is George Carlin.
Needless to say, the the 7 Words clip contains lots and lots of NSFW language (unless your job is talking about video clips containing harsh language…)
George Carlin – 7 Words
George Carlin Remembers Shining Time Station
As I’ve mentioned before, this semester I’m teaching a course in commentary and blogging that includes a good dose of social media. In the comments section for this post you will find links to the blogs and Twitter feeds for all my students.
Class, this is what I’m looking for:
Hi, I’m Dr. H. My blog is located at http://ralphehanson and I tweet as @ralphehanson.
So, class, comment away with your blog and Twitter addresses. Don’t worry that it doesn’t show up immediately; I have to moderate the comments here to prevent spam.
There’s been a lot of over-the-top rhetoric about the use of crosshair (gun sight) imagery in last year’s campaign and what that might have to do with the shootings that took place in Arizona over the weekend. Here are three commentaries worth looking at on how the press and politicians have responded:
In many of my classes, I require my students to use Twitter. While I hope each of them will come up with their own list of people to follow, here are a few that make up a good starting point:
“We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.” ~ Gabrielle Giffords
This evening Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is recovering from surgery for being shot in the head as part of an attack that killed six people, including a federal judge. Reports say that a total of 18 people were injured.
As with so much of the news these days, I first learned about it from Twitter. In this case, it was a message from the media news site Mediaite.
Even in the midst of such a tragedy, it is always interesting to me to see how news spreads. Here are a number of links that look at how social media, the web, and legacy media have handled this story today.
More later
What was once a April Foolsie is now real:
