Category Archives: Chapter 15

Fighting Against “Fake News” with the Truth Sandwich

Posted on September 29, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

This week my media literacy class is working on the concept of fake news.  I’m having them take a look at the history of how both the concept and term have been used over the last several centuries. Aside from … Continue reading →

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Marie Colvin and the risks of covering war

Posted on April 6, 2019 by Ralph Hanson

Earlier this week I took my Global Media Literacy students to our wonderful local community World Theatre to see the Marie Colvin biopic, A Private War. The film tells the story of acclaimed war correspondent Marie Colvin (played Academy Award nominee Rosamund … Continue reading →

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Dangerous Times Globally for Journalists

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

I’ve been putting off writing this blog post because I really don’t want to write it. I don’t like writing about a journalist being raped and murdered for trying to cover totalitarian regimes. another journalist has been murdered, once again … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post: Another group of Afghan journalists killed; another note of condolences

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

My friend Dr. Chris Allen, a journalism professor at University of Nebraska at Omaha, has been working on global journalism issues from Russia, to Afghanistan, to Oman, and beyond. He writes occasional guest blog posts on international issues. He wrote … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post: When a bomb explodes

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Ralph Hanson

Editor’s Note: The following blog post is from my old, old friend Dr. Chris Allen, who is a broadcast journalism professor at University of Nebraska – Omaha.  For years he’s been traveling around the world as a media scholar and to take … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post: The Price of Global Journalism

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Ralph Hanson

My friend Dr. Chris Allen, a journalism professor at University of Nebraska at Omaha, has been working on global journalism issues from Russia, to Afghanistan, to Oman, and beyond.  I am reposting what he wrote on November 22 with his permission as … Continue reading →

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Back To School With The Media

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Ralph Hanson

It’s Back To School time, so let’s look at some start-of-the-school-year themed stories: Oregon school district rescinds ban on rap music radio in school buses. Rule was no talk radio, religious radio, or rap music – pop/rock, country and jazz … Continue reading →

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Smart Analysis on Brussels Attacks from Joshua Hersh

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Ralph Hanson

We’ve had round the clock news about the bombings in Brussels over the last few days, but some of the sharpest reporting I’ve seen has come from freelancer Joshua Hersh’s Twitter feed.  I’m to post several of his tweets from … Continue reading →

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Everyone’s Gone to the Bollywood Movies

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Ralph Hanson

NOTE: I wanted to update some of my Bollywood materials and examples, so here is a fresh post with some old and some new material. I generally show the following clip from Bollywood musical Mohabbatein in class as a way to get … Continue reading →

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Trying to Control the News

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Ralph Hanson

There’ve been several stories over the last few days of governments attempting to control the news.  Here are links to two of them: Judge forces Florida paper to “unpublish” information According to Columbia Journalism Review, a judge in Florida has … Continue reading →

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