The NY Times reports on public radio and the web.
One of my students recently asked where we can get news with context. NPR is a good beginning: Tell Them Public Matters.
media: April 2006 Archives
A blog: Blackfive which includes a link to Sgt. Hook's after-action-review of the first MilBlog Conference.
A broadcast: Unitarian Universalist sermon on Evolution: The Issue Behind The Issue, which Steve Edington claims (quite contemporarily) is the importance of story.
A film: Thank You for Smoking, which presents argument as the essence of story.
All that's left is to make sense of "the story," the telling of the story, and the story behind the story.
VPP and I had a lengthy discussion about the rash of vicious and hateful posters to the blog of the white man, Kevin Ray Underwood, who brutally murdered and violated a ten year old girl last week in Oklahoma (reported by CNN).
It led us into a conversation of the concept of valence, which is an element in group relations theory.
What launched us was the apparent data from the guy's blog that he was surrounded in his life by the kind of people now posting vitriolic comments to his blog. Perhaps, he acted on a surplus of the hatred around him that somehow built up in him beyond the point of his ability to suppress?
I'm thinking I won't be in town for this conference
hosted by the Media Giraffe Project, but the wiki looks like it might develop into a useful resource.
My peers are more critical than me. I thought it was pretty good, but they lamented it's predictability and (hello?) the amount of violence.
I was intrigued by the relationship between a man who has reinvented himself and a woman who has to reconcile her attraction to this man with a past she abhors.
Otherwise, it was predictable. There were also several loose ends not pursued and/or left untied. "Half-assed," was the assessment of the clerk at Captain Video. Then they (my friends?!!) tried to blame me :-0 only because Munich was out, there would have been too much thinking involved with Good Night, And Good Luck, and Jarhead didn't grab their interest. Maybe they regret passing up the opportunity to watch Jesus Christ Superstar?
Hilarious! Thanks Viveca, for sending the link.
Looks like C-SPAN2 will air his keynote address at UMass' Communication in Crisis conference this Sunday at 1 pm EST on the program Book TV, and again at 11 pm EST.
This story was shared by Matthew to the social justice listserv. The line that jumped out at me reads:
"After all, aren’t we holding, for many years now, conventions of corruption, violence and impunity in a society which has made forgetting the best tool to survive?"
News from Belarus, where (as Mark Miller ironically pointed out) democracy is actually being fought for: Belarusian Mass Media Online. Includes a link to Belarus indymedia but the English version doesn't seem to be operational today.
