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Ch. 1 Link – Hearing a Speech v. Reading a Speech

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Both President Barack Obama and his challenger Senator John McCain were credited with giving excellent speeches on election night 2008.  Take a listen to these two speeches, then read a transcript of them.  Which gives you a better sense of … Continue reading →

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Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Reporters Praised for Coverage of Shootings

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

There can be no doubt that student journalists at Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Times had the best coverage in the country of Thursday’s shooting deaths of the VT campus.  As I wrote on this blog yesterday, the paper’s staff did an … Continue reading →

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Virginia Tech Shooting Drives News to Social Media

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

When the story broke this afternoon about a shooting that has reportedly left two dead on the Virginia Tech campus, two things happened.  People started remembering the horror of the 2007 shooting on the campus that left 33 people dead, … Continue reading →

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Sept. 11, 2001 retrospective

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

I’ve been tweeting a lot this last week or two about 9/11 coverage. Here’s a collection of items based on those tweets. Newseum Newspaper Front Page Archive The Newseum posts the front pages of newspapers from around the world on … Continue reading →

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Great 9/11 Television Archive

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

The Internet Archive has posted an absolutely mesmerizing archive of television coverage of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.  Starting at 8 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 11 (when the first of the hijacked planes took off from Boston), … Continue reading →

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More Earthquakes and Twitter

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Boing Boing shared a fascinating video up showing the spread of earthquake Tweets on Tuesday. The green dots are tweets about earthquakes, the gray dots are tweets about other topics.  Each frame covers 1 second, and the video covers 12 minutes … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

How did people learn about bin Laden’s death? Survey says — Television.  Though many of my students said word-of-mouth from people who had been watching TV. What parent wouldn’t love a book called “Go The @$#& To Sleep”? This book … 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: ‘Seven Dirty Words’ and Truth 3 – Everything From the Margin Moves to the Center

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

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 … Continue reading →

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