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Changes, They Be Happenin’

KSMU recently interviewed me for its Missouri State Journal program. Topic: Changes in the news media. Technorati Tags: Journalism

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On this Memorial Day: I support the troops, not the war in Iraq. The troops do not equal the war. If they did equal the war, then blunders and failure would be their fault. And we know that's not true. As we learned, or should have, in Vietnam, politicians can make disastrous choices. Soldiers do their duty despite political bungling.  I believe in the pride, loyalty, initiative, and skill of the American soldier. I believe in his/her call to duty and admire&nb ...

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Mad Magazine will publish a 2-page spread of political cartoons--by Pulitzer Prize winners--on the topic of "Why George W. Bush is in Favor of Global Warming." I loved Mad when I was kid. I subscribed for many years--from roughly the 6th through the 9th grades. I'm not going to make any claims about the magazine, having not seen it in years. The closest I've come is flipping nostalgically through the book Mad About the Sixties--exactly the era and issues that I remember best. (I paused afte ...

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I'm watching the returns on CNN. I feel about CNN the same way some people feel about The Kramer: It's loathsome, yet I can't look away. Question: Who's watching this stuff? (Well, yes, I am. But I know why I'm doing it. Why would anyone else who isn't doing what I'm doing do it?) I'm enjoying getting a peek into a few of the caucuses. But there's no real news yet. What's funny--and making me wish the writers were back on the job so I could be watching Jon Stewart--is watchin ...

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Okay, let's suppose you're a reporter and your editor gives you this assignment: Find out how people who get their news from Jon Stewart are getting their news during the writer's strike. How will you cover this? Perhaps as Verne Gay did for Newsday. Step one: Find young people who will claim they get their news from The Daily Show. Avoid anyone who claims something more complicated. What you want are provacative quotes that support your assumption. Step two: Call experts who ...

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The headline says it all. We'll see you at 7 p.m. at the Patton Alley Pub. For you out-of-town folks, I'll post a podcast (if my battery holds out). UPDATE: Here's the podcast--uploaded late because my battery failed. Rhetorica Podcast

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Listen to this podcast interview with Tony Messenger about his day of blogging for the Springfield News-Leader--includes some information about Gannett's "crowdsourcing" idea. Rhetorica Podcast

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Each of the bloggers working at the Patton Alley Pub tonight introduce themselves. Rhetorica Podcast

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It's just past 10:00--a few hours to go. A good time is being had by all. Rhetorica Podcast

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A short interview with Doug McGill about the Buddhist concept of "right speech" as it might apply in journalism. Rhetorica Podcast Tag: podcasts

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This podcast is a recording of the entire 2006 Whalen Symposium on Media Ethics held on 17 October at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Rhetorica Podcast Tag: podcasts

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Yes, another meeting of the Springfield Bloggers. In which we talk about citizen journalism, the First Amendment, and a little surprise. Rhetorica Podcast

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Another meeting of the Springfield Bloggers. The podcast is a conversation I had with The Libertarian Guy. The rest of them showed up a bit late--a small crowd, but it included new attendees Darin and Michelle. Rhetorica Podcast

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Another meeting of the Springfield Bloggers; among the topics of discussion: Katie Couric, stingrays, and getting a cabbage in the face in New Orleans. Rhetorica Podcast Tag: podcasts

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Yet another meeting of the Springfield Bloggers.Rhetorica Podcast

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Ron Davis, blogger and journalist from Springfield, Mo., interviews me about citizen journalism and blogging. Rhetorica Podcast Tag: podcasts

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The usual fun at the Springfield Bloggers meeting. Rhetorica Podcast Tag: podcasts

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OAXACA, Mexico (Reuters) - Thousands of Mexican police firing tear gas fought a running battle with striking teachers in a southern city on Wednesday in the latest violence between protesters and security forces before July elections.UPDATE...Democracy Now! reports 11 people dead:.mp3 of today's show (41:12)Watch and read here.UPDATE...As I reported earlier (here and here), I was in Oaxaca, Mexico recently and experienced a few days of the annual teachers' strike (it's even mentioned in Fro ...

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Clips from Oaxaca, Mexico--including short conversations with Wife Rhetorica and Kid Rhetorica. Rhetorica Podcast Tag: podcasts

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President Bush finds himself in an interesting political pickle caused in part, in my opinion, by his administration's crusader rhetoric since 9/11. I have no idea if it's a good plan to contract with Dubai Ports World, a state-owned company based in the United Arab Emirates, to run some American ports. A professor here at Missouri State is worried about it. In order to get the American people to agree to attack a country without provocation (spare me, please) one must resort to the kind o ...

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