... and the Business — Demand Radical Changes in Journalism Curriculum.
This begs the question: Is D:F/M up to the challenge?
Radical Changes in Journalism – the Profession …
February 20th, 2011Mrs. Anne Smith @ United Kingdom Loves the WORD
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February 11th, 2011
A great evening, February 8, The Emerging Skills of Tomorrow’s Journalist. Very informative. Cutting edge. The kind of wisdom regarding the direction of journalism that my Colleagues have chosen to ignore, especially in light of their effort to introduce a journalism/media curriculum so lame that I’m embarrass for them. They aren’t.
More to follow about the event and the direction of journalism.
More Gearing Up for the Semester
February 7th, 2011Journalism 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.
There Goes the Neighborhood
February 7th, 2011AOL agrees to buy The Huffington Post for $315 million; Arianna Huffington to be media group prez – NY Daily News Headline.
Sigh.
The WORD Gearing Up for the Spring Semester
February 5th, 2011
Section 2, Basic Reporting
Flunk ‘Em All?
January 31st, 2011RE: 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 …
FAIR Media Advisory: Keith Olbermann’s Departure from MSNBC Shows Limits of Corporate Media Liberalism – Part 3
January 27th, 2011Now, 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.
FAIR Media Advisory: Keith Olbermann’s Departure from MSNBC Shows Limits of Corporate Media Liberalism – Part 2
January 25th, 2011A quickie: I watched bits n’pieces of Olbermann. I watched Rachel Maddow a few times and wondered how long MSNBC allow her to pummel the extreme right. She was very good but something about her shows seemed artificial and more like entertainment, as in, Okay, you think these right wing sleaze bags are going to heaven? Well, watch this choreography we put together to make sure that you know they’re really going to hell. A little over the top, I thought.
I considered her and his shows marketing devices for MSNBC to compete against Fox for viewership. Whereas Fox never seemed that way: True diehard neo-nativists — neo-fascistic, comfortable in the presence of birthers and all the other neo-bigots. A real bigot revue.
I believe that the MSNBC high mucky-mucks and the Fox high mucky-mucks meet somewhere in an upscale bar and schmooze, slap each other on the back, commiserate.
AOL Buys Huffington Post: Can You Spell B-A-C-K-P-A-Y?
February 17th, 2011— By Way of NWU President Larry Goldbetter <nwu@nwu.org> Newsletter
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