Reading, like a brick, forms strong foundation - USATODAY.com
I’m posting this because it relates to some research I’ve been reading that says that teachers are either ignored in the media or only presented in negative ways. I was reminded of that as I read this really nice feature about a 50-something teacher who makes […]

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Hello, Grisham — So Long, Hemingway? - washingtonpost.com
Story about Fairfax County Public Library’s plan for cleaning off the shelves
Be sure to read Jon Swift’s commentary

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Well, It Turns Out That Lonelygirl Really Wasn’t - New York Times
“They were like the new Marshall McLuhan.”
I missed this one…don’t spend enough time at YouTube, I guess. Anyway, it turns out that the teen who has been videocasting from her laptop is actually a 20-something actress who is videocasting from someone else’s laptop.  The […]

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<DisneyDoes911>
I haven’t seen any of the 9/11-related movies but this one is already generating controversy and is another perfect text to study in a media literacy class. ABC’s movie is a “fictionalized” account of history before 9/11 and evidently seems biased against the Clinton administration. Where’s the line between news and entertainment? […]

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YouTube - Lewis Black Demands CNN Remove banner from screen
Why do I keep reading about media and media literacy when it is happening all around me?  Here’s a segment from CNN with Lewis Black in which he complains about the crawl at the bottom of the screen.  It’s distracting, he says, from the people talking.  […]

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News photography and Photoshop - Reuters Newsblogs
“The rules are – no additions or deletions, no misleading the viewer by manipulation of the tonal and colour balance to disguise elements of an image or to change the context.
Photoshop is a powerful image processing program with many more tools to help photographers produce the best quality image […]

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Started reading An Introduction to Visual Culture and A Visual Culture Readers by Nicholas Mirzoeff.  I was reminded of both this morning when I read Mark Glaser's comments at MediaShift about "astroturf" blog commenters.  Unlike grassroots comments, astroturf comments are placed by those either encouraged or actually paid to post comments that support particular points […]

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I am waiting for several books to arrive from Amazon. While I wait, I decided to see what Google has to say. Microsoft Windows Media Player shows up first on the list when you google "media," and Media Matters, a liberal media watchdog group, is second. Their purpose, "Media Matters for America […]

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