Tag Archives: covid19

Will “Everyone’s Gone to the Movies” be true again?

Posted on October 12, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

Back in May, I wrote a long post about the effects the COVID19 pandemic is having on the movie and movie theater industries. The short version? It’s a disaster. Theaters stayed closed for months and movie producers have had to … Continue reading →

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Why it was OK for Bob Woodward to save his Trump virus story for the book

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

The Twittersphere was losing its stuff this afternoon, pig-piling on Bob Woodward for saving the material from his interview with President Trump about the COVID pandemic for his book RAGE instead of reporting it in the newspaper back in February. … Continue reading →

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The media world on Twitter: Short takes on complex issues

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

I’m spending most of my time right now trying to complete the eighth edition of Mass Communication: Living in a Media World for my publisher Sage.  I’ve been blessed with some friends who have been kind enough to write guest blog … Continue reading →

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Live sports are TV’s salvation – but there ain’t no sports…

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

It’s pretty clear that the one thing that draws people age 18-49 to conventional TV these days is live sports. So what happens when there aren’t any live sports anywhere in the world? With all the choices globally, that’s an … Continue reading →

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Movies and Theaters in the Age of COVID19

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

Back in March of 2020, it was becoming clear to the movie industry that it was going to be a significant amount of time before audiences were going to be gathering in large numbers anywhere, let alone close-packed movie theaters. … Continue reading →

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Putting popularity of government action on COVID19 in context by comix XKCD

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

XKCD is a comic about range of geeky issues, but it is often about how to present data in interesting and honest ways. This one does a great job of putting the popularity of government efforts to protect us from … Continue reading →

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Lin-Manuel Miranda talks with AP History Students on Primary Sources and Writing Hamilton

Posted on May 2, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

Our time of COVID19 isolation has led to a wide range of unusual media content out there.   But for me, nothing has been as cool as all of the Hamilton content that has sprung up in the last month. … Continue reading →

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Great work from my commentary and blogging students

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

It’s been a rough time during the second part of this semester for my blogging and commentary students, with all of their classes going online/remote.  Some of them are graduating into an uncertain world; all of them are dealing with … Continue reading →

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“If we break quarantine, we could all die.” Alien, 1979

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

My favorite bit of social distancing art is this tattoo design done by artist Genevieve Kent-Bethley out of Kitchener, Ontario. It’s been circulated heavily on Twitter without credit to the artist.

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COVID19 Patrol: How the world changed in 2020

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

It’s difficult now to think back to a time when most of us had not heard of words like coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, community spread, social distancing and self-quarantining. A time before all classes were abruptly moved online. A time before … Continue reading →

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