CQ Researcher: Reality TV

Haggerty, M. (2010, August 27). Reality tv. CQ Researcher, 20, 677-700. Retrieved August 31, 2010, from CQ Researcher Online, http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2010082700. There is a new CQ Researcher report on Reality TV.

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2010 Emmy Opening Skit

Missed the Emmy opening skit? It is must see tv. BTW: Just read that NBC didn’t license the Springsteen parody & therefore does not have it on NBC.com (do parodies need licensing? perhaps because they didn’t change the song or lyrics — just peppered it with antics & comedic dialogue?): Schneider, Michael. (2010, September 1). [...]

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Conference: Global visions, Local connections: voices in media literacy education

From Deb Parker, NAMLE Conference Chair: Global visions, Local connections: voices in media literacy education…That’s the theme of NAMLE’s 2011 conference, which will take place July 23-25, 2011 in Philadelphia, PA. Plan now to participate.  The Call for Proposals will be announced next month. Here’s your chance to share your research, classroom practice, and other [...]

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Conference: Media Law in the digital age

Alert from Seth Young, Berkman Center for Internet & Society: Cambridge, MA – August 31, 2010 – The Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University are co‐hosting a conference on September 25, 2010 entitled “Media Law in the Digital Age: [...]

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CHE: Romano on the future of the book

Romano, Carlin. (2010, August 29). Will the Book Survive Generation Text? The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved August 30, 2010, from http://chronicle.com/article/Will-the-Book-Survive/124115/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en Like many books and articles on this culture shift, Romano notes the problem of concentration for those growing up digital: Many college-age sorts study their phones, put them away to try to focus [...]

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MediaPost: Warner Bros. & Disney tactics for piracy

Davis, Wendy. (2010, August 27). Warner Bros., Disney Take New Tack On Piracy. MediaPost Publications. Retrieved August 30, 2010, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=134548&nid=118053 From the lede: Hollywood studios have often argued in court that Web sites hosing pirated clips infringe on copyright, but this week Warner Bros. and Disney tried a more unusual approach: They sued a [...]

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Ragan.com: Birnbach pointers on crisis com cases

Birnbach, Norman. (2010, August 30). Crucial PR lessons from BP, Toyota & Goldman Sachs. Ragan.com. Retrieved August 30, 2010, from http://www.ragan.com/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=MultiPublishing&mod=PublishingTitles&mid=5AA50C55146B4C8C98F903986BC02C56&tier=4&id=8B468727241A4DE7A5A35DD49E668CD9&AudID=3FF14703FD8C4AE98B9B4365B978201A Ten lessons are noted.

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Guardian: Wikileaks & Justice Sotomayor

WikiLeaks war logs posting ‘will lead to free speech ruling’. (2010, August 27). The Guardian. Retrieved August 30, 2010, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/27/wikileaks-war-logs-free-speech-supreme-court?& MLPB gave me the heads up on this article. Here is the lede: US supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor has said the court is likely to have to rule on the issue of balancing [...]

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CC: Interview with Lewis Hyde

Linksvayer, Mike. (2010, August 27). Lewis Hyde, author of Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership. Creative Commons. Retrieved August 30, 2010, from http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/23204 I just submitted an order for Hyde’s new book Common as Air.

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Variety: 62nd Annual Primetime Emmys winners list

Here is the list. Mad Men won for Drama Series & Modern Family won for Comedy Series.

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Variety: FCC’s indecent appeal

Johnson, Ted. (2010, August 26). FCC’s indecent appeal: Agency says ruling ‘all but impossible’ to enforce. Variety / TV. Retrieved August 27, 2010, from http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118023376.html?categoryId=14&cs=1&nid=2248 Describes a FCC appeal to the federal appellate court, “to reconsider its ruling that the commission’s policies used to crack down on the utterance of single expletives were “unconstitutionally vague.”

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THR: Betty White and her Emmy nods

White, Betty. (2010, August 26). EXCLUSIVE: Tina Fey’s surprise for Betty White. Betty White on the Emmys. Retrieved August 27, 2010, from http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i53445ccba5e5906eb47f44cde6bad6e2 Tina Fey sent White a gift with a note… WATCH THE EMMY AWARDS August 29th @ 8 pm.  Jimmy Fallon will host.

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Journalism.org: Media coverage of the Gulf disaster study

100 Days of Gushing Oil – Media Analysis and Quiz | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ). (n.d.). . Retrieved August 25, 2010, from http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/100_days_gushing_oil Tom Rosenstiel just released an alert of new study on media coverage of the Gulf Disaster.  Here is the text of his alert: August 25, 2010 —The complexity and duration [...]

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Adweek: Old Spice: smells like a commercial Emmy

Adweek Staff. (2010, August 24). Old Spice: Smells Like a Commercial Emmy. Adweek.com. Retrieved August 25, 2010, from http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/agency/e3i1108aba159819c8517ffca360e056b22 Here is the lede: Wieden + Kennedy won the Emmy for Outstanding Commercial at the Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Awards for the independent agency’s wildly popular Old Spice commercial, “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like.” [...]

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NYTimes.com: What ‘fact-checking’ means online

Heffernan, V. (2010, August 20). What ‘Fact-Checking’ Means Online. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22FOB-medium-t.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 Here is an excerpt from Heffernan’s reflection of the fact check process over time: Meanwhile, a reverse process was happening in pop culture, as broadband brought millions of facts, the fantasy of perfect factuality and the satisfaction of fact-checking [...]

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Ragan.com: A technical guide to video SEO for communicators

This was on a post to Ragan.com by Shel Hotz (8/25/2010). It is described as, “A guide for those ready to take corporate videos to the next level.” A technical guide to video SEO for communicator…, posted with vodpod

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World Treaty Index (U Michigan)

I recently received an email from Daniel Martin, Fellow in Empirical Legal Studies, Michigan Law School, about the development of a World Treaty Index.  The interface is up and is in “prerelease” (beta) to work out bugs.  They aim to have the database populated with “full coverage of all known agreements for [the] entire 20th [...]

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PEN American Center: Literary Magazines: Here and Abroad, Now and in the Future

I read about this via an UTNE alert.  Here is a link to the PEN website & a line from the event description, “Join the editors of Granta, Tin House, and PEN America—along with contributors to those magazines—for a freewheeling conversation about the past, present, and future of literary magazines, both in the United States [...]

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PoynterOnline: It’s not ground zero & it is not a mosque

McBride, Kelly. (2010, August 25). SEO Makes it too late for truth for ‘Ground Zero Mosque’. PoynterOnline. Retrieved August 25, 2010, from http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=136&aid=189467 Kelly McBride outlines the problems with how the story was named by the press.

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Findlaw: Hilden on Facebook defamation case

Hilden, Julie. (2010, August 24). Future Conflict Over Defamation on Facebook: How It Might Differ from Traditional Defamation Litigation, Part Two in a Two-Part Series of Columns. Findlaw. Retrieved August 25, 2010, from http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20100824.html?DCMP=NWL-pro_top Saw this on the Media Law Prof Blog.  Here is an excerpt: The question now– with both Twitter and Facebook — [...]

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