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Monday, February 21st, 2011
ALBANY – Gov. Cuomo’s speech on Sunday night to the Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators was interrupted with chants of “Tax the rich!” led by City Councilman Charles Barron. — Glenn Blain, NY Daily News
Barron is a baron. Word! Makes one think of Bill Thompson’s “Term Limits” in the 2009 Mayoral Election. Thompson could have won if voters hadn’t been convinced by the mainstream news media that Bloomberg was strutting on the path to victor. Thompson lost by 4 percent.
Full story here.
Tags:2009 NYC Mayoral Election, Bill C. Thompson, Charles Barron, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg, Term Limits
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
Blogs were once the outlet of choice for people who wanted to express themselves online. But with the rise of sites like Facebook and Twitter, they are losing their allure for many people – particularly the younger generation. — Verne G. Kopytof, NYT, February 21.
Blogging’s soaring popularity reminded me of the mass appeal of Citizen Band Radio when it was hot. Everyone had a handle. T.B. Knight was my moniker. After a while the sizzle faded. The amateurs had had enough. And the airwave returned to the highway cops and the truckers who were using it before its mass appeal. QMfE, “The same thing’s going to happen to blogging,” I told my students.
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Tags:2008 Democratic National Convention, blog, facebook, social networking
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Monday, February 7th, 2011
Journalism Handbook for Students:
Journalism students enrolled in courses taught by Professor Gregg Morris are regarded as members of a community of scholars. Scholars push forward the boundaries of knowledge; respectable student journalists serve their public and their communities by seeking and reporting the facts as accurately as possible. Good journalists and scholars share a commitment to the same principle: integrity in their work. A doctor’s ethos is, “do no harm.” For journalism students, it’s “tell the truth.”
The handbook I’m using in class this semester is based on the handbook developed by NYU Professor Adam L. Penenberg who makes it available to other instructors via Open Access License. It has been abridged for students writing for the WORD.
Brilliant.
Tags:journalism education, NYU Journalism Handbook, student journalists
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Monday, January 31st, 2011
RE: Classroom Protocol — Text Messaging, Cell Phoning. Computers in the Classroom. ADD/ADHD. Tourette Syndrome. Paranoid Schizophrenia. Et. Al.
Inspired by a discussion on the Hunter-Listserv several weeks ago about students plunking away on laptops in classes, the following was to be posted on the Hunter-L listserv the first week of classes but I changed my mind. I see no point. I think I’ve pretty much exhausted whatever value that listserv held for me. Nevertheless, what I’ve would have posted if I hadn’t changed my mind …
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Tags:cell phone etiquette, cell phones, disruptive students, serially flashing, text messaging, texting, Tourette Syndrome
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Now, I understand what I wanted to say in the previous post about Keith Olberman et. al. but didn’t know how to get at it: I would love to see a show somehow teaming up The Rachel Maddow with Democracy Now! If such things were possible. Even just an experiment.
Tags:Democracy Now
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Gov. Cuomo speech drowned out with City Councilman Charles Barron-led yells of ‘Tax the rich!’ — NY Daily News
Monday, February 21st, 2011Full story here.
Tags:2009 NYC Mayoral Election, Bill C. Thompson, Charles Barron, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg, Term Limits
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