Category Archives: Book Link

Link Ch. 14 – Jose Vargas, immigration, and journalistic truth telling

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Former Washington Post reporter Jose Vargas is a successful young journalist.  He was part of a reporting team that won a Pulitzer for covering the Virginia Tech massacre, he wrote a well-regarded profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for the … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 7 – Meet Girl Talk’s Gregg Gillis

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

(Updated 2/17/19) Please note that most of the links here to video or audio content will contain offensive and/or NSFW language. Trying to explain what Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, does to anyone my age can be a bit challenging. … Continue reading →

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Ch. 1 Link – Web comics that defy classification

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

NOTE: While none of the comics discussed here go much beyond PG-13 in art, they do sometimes have offensive language in them. (12/15/11) Regular readers here know that I’m a huge fan of web comics. In your textbook, there’s a … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 1 – Covering bin Laden’s Death

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Here are a number of stories on the death of Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011 WVU’s Daily Athenaeum Covers Street Celebrations The staff of WVU’s student newspaper did a great job of covering the street celebrations when the … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 13 – Noriega, CNN and Prior Restraint

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

I was lecturing recently on free press/fair trial issues, and touched on the CNN/Noriega case.  In this case the court issued a temporary restraining order against CNN to prevent the network from broadcasting tapes of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 3 – How Walt Disney Cartoons are Made – 1939

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Here is a fun old RKO short on how the Walt Disney studio produced cartoons back in the 1930s.  A great look at old-school animation.  Thanks to /Film for the link. (Pay attention to the narration.  The inking work is … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 7: Bon Jovi – Steve Jobs is killing the music business

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Jon Bon Jovi: “Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music busines.” Bon Jovi has become a grumpy old man.  Despite the fact that Apple is actually getting people to pay for digital music, JBJ says that Jobs killed … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 8 – Great Bollywood Example

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

UPDATE – New version of clip with good subtitles. I showed a great clip from the Bollywood musical Mohabbatein today in class.  It’s a wonderful way to get across the idea of what the masala or “spice” movies are like. … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 15 – Al Jazeera Arabic carrying video of police running over protesters

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

In my commentary and blogging course today, we were talking about how Al Jazeera English differs from what Americans are typically used to seeing on television.  One of my students said he watched AJE for about 15 minutes yesterday and … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 15 – Media News from the Muslim World

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Ralph Hanson

When we look at the media world here in the United States, one of the things we understand the least is how media operate in the non-Western world, especially in the Muslim Middle East.  NPR’s On The Media had a … Continue reading →

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