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Guest Post: Using AI as a collaborator, not a crutch

Posted on October 20, 2026 by Ralph Hanson

Editor’s Note: Regular readers here will know (can’t help but noticing!) my disdain for most things AI, especially in creative work. (I also worry, somewhat speculatively, that it could result in the end of the world as we know it…) … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post: How Ticketmaster Failed Us and Taylor Swift

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Ralph Hanson

Let me start by saying I’m not a Swiftie. I’ve listened to her Folklore album a time or two and viewed her Tiny Desk concert. That’s about it. I first learned about all of the fuss about how Ticketmaster was … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post: Media framing the news out of Ukraine very differently than that from Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Ralph Hanson

Yesterday morning while I was reading Twitter,  Dr. Rosemary Pennington, associate professor of journalism at Miami University of Ohio, had a great thread on how the news media have framed the story of what is happening in Ukraine so very … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post – Looking Back at Banned Books

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Ralph Hanson

I saw on social media last week that my former student Stephanie Ballard Conrad was talking about studying banned books back when she was an undergraduate nearly 20 years ago. I asked if she could give us a look back … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post: Olympic Games are great for propagandists – how the lessons of Hitler’s Olympics loom over Beijing 2022

Posted on November 18, 2021 by Ralph Hanson

Editor’s Note: Thanks to my friend Dr. Michael Socolow, University of Maine, for letting me reprint his article from The Conversation.  Dr. Socolow takes a look at China’s repression and human rights abuses and asks whether cheerful media coverage of … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post: The other George Floyd story: How media freedom led to conviction in his killer’s trial

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Ralph Hanson

Editor’s Note: Thanks to my friend Dr. Michael Socolow, University of Maine, for letting me reprint his article from The Conversation. Near v. Minnesota is such an important media law case that highlights the importance of defending unpopular speech. When … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post – Caught in the Crossfire: Journalism’s “Objectivity” Problem in Times of Civil Unrest

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

Another excellent guest blog post, this one from Dr. Michael J. Socolow. While working in the CNN Los Angeles Bureau in the early 1990s, Prof. Socolow was an Assignment Editor helping to direct coverage on such stories as the O.J. … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post: Executive Orders & Social Media`

Posted on May 30, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

Today’s guest blog post is from TCU journalism professor and media lawyer Chip Stewart who tweets as @MediaLawProf. He is the author of multiple books, including Media Law Through Science Fiction: Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech? Social Media and the … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post: Little Women Spoiler Alert

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

This guest blog post is from my Dear Wife, author Pam Andrews Hanson.  In the past she has blogged here and here. Needless to say, this guest blog post contains Little Women spoilers. Spoiler Alert: Beth dies in Little Women and … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post: Deadspin – When Vulture Capitalists Don’t Like What They’ve Bought

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Ralph Hanson

Readers who turned to the irreverent and unpredictable sports, news and pop culture blog Deadspin on Thursday morning, hoping to get the eclectic blog’s take on the National’s win of the World Series were disappointed to see only a story … Continue reading →

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