Category: Media
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SJSU Student Blogger Podcast coming soon
Hey all SJSU bloggers: check Steve Sloan’s blog for info about tomorrow’s chance to get in on the conversation.
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Paging Walter Lippmann
Or is a lack of curiosity just a function of a consumerist society based upon spectacle? We seem to be far more curious about the spectacle than we are about reality.
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Dan Gillmor’s Big Unveiling
Hoping this becomes more horizontal bonds than echo chamber, but again, that could be the term paper talking. Good luck, Dan.
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News from the front: Blogs Vs. Journalism
There are quite a few Profs here with more than a few decades of journalism experience under their belts, not to mention years of teaching, and frankly, precious few of them buy into the idea of horizontal communication.
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Get Your War On
JUST in case I haven’t mentioned it before, Get Your War On is the coolest thing on Earth. Okay, “cool” is subjective, but how about, “awesome-est.” Yeah, well start working on that writing style any minute now…
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How many white women can go missing in one news cycle?
Via Romenesko, a set of stories highlighting the common thread in the most sensationalized missing persons reports of the last few years: white women seem to be vanishing left and right. The recent runaway bride ridiculousness is the point of departure, and the stories Romenesko links to point out that this sort of soap opera…
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Tsunami coverage conference
Via Mark on Media: The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma held a conference in April on coverage of last December’s tsunami. Lots of journalistic questions about how to cover disasters here, including this one: What do you do when the interviewee is crying on your shoulder?
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Knight/Princess/Dragon: More on the importance of story structure.
Knight/Princess/Dragon. In business/marketing/advertising, Cluetrain/Hughtrain style: The story of your company sells your product. Tell us why your product will better hook us into our ideals, into our more efficient day, into ourselves, into our own narrative. Tell us where your product fits into that narrative we write for ourselves. In government/politics: The story of your…
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All conversations are stories.
SO – Yesterday I threw up my gut reaction to the Pat Tillman bamboozle, including some of what I wrote when the story broke. The reason the friendly-fire truth of the story was covered up? Because the “fallen hero” angle made for a better story. It plugs right into our collective unconscious mythic tagging system,…
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Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire and the Army knew.
Today’s Washington Post reports the Army was perfectly aware that Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire, but covered it up.