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Journalism 101
Spring 2008
Final exam study guide

U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights Amendment I (know this)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.


Chomsky & Herman’s Propaganda Model
(Know the five filter proposed by the authors of Manufacturing Consent.
1. Si… Continue

Louis Baynard's story "Attention, all you memoir fabulists!" at Salon.com today is great fun. It's a hypothetical "interoffice memorandum":

"Erewhon Publishing has instituted a stringent new "cards on the table" policy. In the future, every memoirist will be required to provide evidence of his or her dysfunction: arrest records, needle tracks, urine and stool samples -- and in the case of Martin Amis, dental bills. "

The "mem… Continue

I was looking for something else altogether when I came upon a Wired story from last year about the federally-funded artificial intelligence lab that's researching "how to track people over the Internet, based on how they write."

From the Wired story:
The University of Arizona's ultra-ambitious "Dark Web" project "aims to systematically collect and analyze all terrorist-generated content on the Web," the National Science F… Continue

So Obama takes Georgia ... and Huckabee's doing not-so-poorly.
It's 4:27 p.m. and I'm getting ready to teach magazine writing but hey. This whole Election 2008 thing is like the best reality show going. In this morning's Journalism 101, an informal show of hands predicted that McCain would clobber Romney and Obama would bounce right over Hillary. (Yes, I chose the verb "bounce" on purpose.)
We didn't even vote on Huckabee. I'll hand it to Mike. He has a sense of humor.
For those Ron… Continue

The Washington Post's political cartoonist talks about how he crafts a caricature's of political candidates. Interesting to consider how much thought (and psychology, not to mention artistry) goes into a cartoon.