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Sunday, February 7th, 2010MEDP 299.47 Pushback, Fall, 2009 – Part VI: The End
Friday, February 5th, 2010
RB: This was to be a comparatively long narrative about a 30-40P student, a CUNY Macaulay Honors College student, who fails MEDP 299.47 for being serially disruptive for most of the semester despite repeated warnings from the instructor.
MEDP 299.47 Pushback, Fall, 2009 – Part V
Friday, February 5th, 2010
RB: Requires a separate page. Gets one in Part VI.
LM: Blindsided by personal, family issues. INC.
End Part V
PUSHBACK, MEDP 299.47, Fall, 2009 – Part IV
Friday, February 5th, 2010
JG: Regarded himself as a proficient writer and his writing talent couldn’t be denied.
PC: Decent writer.
PUSHBACK, MEDP 299.47, Fall, 2009 – Part III
Friday, February 5th, 2010
PUSHBACK, MEDP 299.47, Fall, 2009 – Part II
Friday, February 5th, 2010Pushback can range from physical threats & menacing behavior to moderate passive aggressive behavior (such as, I dare you to make me do the assignments) to the negligible. Extreme, never to be tolerated; moderate, up to a certain level until it threatens to fuel rebellious anticipation of 30-40Ps; negligible, hardly worth mentioning (a little slack shouldn’t hurt but don’t tell that to 30-40Ps and the Colleagues who support them).
PUSHBACK, MEDP 299.47, Fall, 2009 – Part I
Friday, February 5th, 2010
AKA Feature Writing
In many ways, this was a typical D:F/M advanced news writing class. The students were talented, all could write. Yet … !
More About Former WORD Editor/Producer Fighting the Power in Morocco
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Aida Alami’s Huffington Post piece was discussed on the home page of the Columbia University journalism school. A J-school contact said she was passing the article/information on to CJR.
Morocco’s Leading Independent Magazine Is Shut Down – Former WORD Editor/Producer Writes in Huffington Post Article
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010“Last week, something extremely shocking happened: the Moroccan authorities took control of our newsroom and offices while we were working on that week’s edition. They sealed the place and changed the locks. The next day, my editor informed us that the magazine had been pretty much sentenced to death and executed by the government. The reason it was closed: judicial liquidation but it is, in reality, a political decision to shut down this icon of the free press in Morocco.” — Article by Aida Alami, Freelance Writer Living in Morrocco.
Read the rest of her article here.
PUSHBACK – Resistance Is Futile But Anticipated
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010This is an introduction of sorts to a six-part series. A few years ago, I invited the New York Time’s first Ombudsman to my journalism ethics/responsibility class. That position, now occupied by Clark Hoyt, is primarily known now as the New York Times Public Editor. I’m speculating that the presence of a Public Editor is more preferable to Ombudsman which sounds akin to a lawman enforcing the law in a lawless community (at least, that’s how I imagine the NYT natives perceive the position when it was announced in the wake of the Jason Blair scandal and other journalistic ignominies which didn’t get as much attention but contributed to marring the public image of the Times).