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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Are aggressive kids more likely to play violent video games? Study says not so much.  Some interesting findings. Is it really a World Wide Web? Well, 25 percent of Europeans have yet to be online. Here’s a link to the … Continue reading →

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Sigourney Weaver & Buster Poindexter do “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” on SNL

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

I’ve been looking for this for years!  A 1986 episode of Saturday Night Live featuring Sigourney Weaver singing “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” with Buster Poindexter, the former head of the SNL Band.  My favorite version of this Christmas classic.  This … 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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David Frum & the Problem with “Balanced” Commentary

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

UPDATED: (Here’s a link to Frum’s farewell conversation on the show.) Today, center-right commentator David Frum stepped down in his role as a commentator for American Public Media‘s business radio news show Marketplace. Frum, a former speech writer for George W. Bush, has … Continue reading →

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T-Shirts, ESPN, and College PR

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

West Virginia University has a big public relations opportunity and a bit of PR problem coming up this weekend. The opportunity?  ESPN’s immensely popular College GameDay is coming to the Mountain State for the West Virginia vs. Louisiana State game. … Continue reading →

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Hitler finds out about the changes to Star Wars on Blu-Ray

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

I completely blame my editor @dwainsmith for this.  To quote Han Solo, “It’s not my fault….” (Note: As usual with the “Hitler finds out about memes, NSFW subtitles)

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Was this the source of a Castle plot? Who knew the pizza story from last year had a grain of truth in it?  Of course, @jayrosen_nyu was talking about the NY Times stating flatly in a story that something was … Continue reading →

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It’s a small, small world…

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Erik, my oldest son, views study abroad as an all-you-can-eat buffet.  He went to Germany when he was 16 as a high school exchange student; he did a study abroad through University of Nebraska at Kearney in Rostock, Germany; and … 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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