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Iconic “This is Fine” Dog echos a 14th century illuminated manuscript image
How long has the “This is Fine” meme been around? Would you believe the 14th century? You all know the Dog-in-the-Burning-Room “This Is Fine” meme, right? As reported in the LAist blog, Green drew the iconic image as part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Because I can, ch04 Books, ch10 social media, Illuminated manuscript, Secret 4, Seven Secrets, This is Fine
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Riding With Strangers – 40th Anniversary Team Strange Airheads Grand Tour
NOTE: For the last eleven years, I’ve competed in a large-scale motorcycle scavenger hunt sponsored annually by Team Strange Airheads. This is a Twin Cities-based organization that got its start as a bowling team that evolved into a BMW motorcycle … Continue reading
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Tagged Grand Tour, motorcycles, Team Strange, Team Strange 2024, travel
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Happy ARPANet-Goes-Online-in-1969 Day for those who celebrate!
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANet), the first wide-area packet-switching network, made its first successful computer-to-computer connection on Oct. 29, 1969. Unlike some earlier conceptions of the network, it was intended to serve the needs of academic researchers, not … Continue reading
What Has Happened to the Washington Post?
Editor’s note: Last week, the Washington Post’s publisher and CEO William Lewis announced that the paper for the only the second time in 50 years would not be endorsing a candidate for the presidency of the United States. In a … Continue reading
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Tagged ch05journalism, ch15ethics, Jeff Bezos, Post Endorsement Controversy, Tim Carman, Washington Post
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Everyone’s Gone To The Movies – Day 2 Clips for Media Literacy
Dear Basketball – Oscar for Best Animated Short 2018 Here is a link to a short documentary on the Disney animator who did the incredible hand-drawn animation in Dear Basketball https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=151995019413886 Gone With The Wind – Staircase Scene – 1939 … Continue reading
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Hip Hop’s T-Pain Goes Unplugged on NPR’s Tiny Desk
Back in 2014, hip-hop artist T-Pain was famous for his creative use of Auto-Tune software, not to put his voice on the correct pitch but rather to produce a sound that was instantly recognizable as his own. But that wasn’t … Continue reading
National Banned Book Week Has a Lot to Observe This Year
Editor’s Note: This week is the American Library Association’s Banned Book Week. The following blog post looks at a history of book challenges in the US and how these efforts have massively escalated in the 2020s. Books are capable of … Continue reading
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What is “Pink Slime” Journalism, and Why is it Such a Problem?
Back in 2012, American consumers were grossed out by stories that found ground beef sold in plastic chubs was often supplemented with the meat byproduct euphemistically known as “finely chopped beef.” This collection of “trimmings” is sprayed with ammonia gas … Continue reading
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After 23 Years, Memories of 9/11 Are Still Raw
9/11/24 Editor’s note: Yesterday morning I showed the “Welcome to the Rock” clip from the 9/11 themed musical Come From Away as my pre-class video in JMC 100 – Global Media Literacy. I then tried to tell my class the … Continue reading
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My How Times Have @#%&ing Changed: Politicians, Presidents and Profanity
As I have previously written, presidents and other politicians using offensive language is nothing new. (In fact, I wrote about this topic as early as 2006 in a media commentary for the late, great Charleston Daily Mail, now merged into … Continue reading
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