The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Friday, August 29, 2008

COMM 337, 386: Sarah Palin bio in Anchorage paper

When Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced his selection of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate today, The Anchorage Daily News
linked a two-part series from her gubernatorial campaign in 2006.

Written by senior reporter Tom Kizzia, it gets into such details as why she earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" as a high school basketball player at the same time she was named "Miss Congeniality" in a beauty contest in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska. A good reporter with an expert eye for detail, Kizzia also explains her success in overthrowing established Republican officeholders that has earned her a reputation as a GOP maverick.

Upshot: There's more to her than you'd think, and Kizzia's series explains where it came from.

I'm linking here because the ADN has taken off the links from its front page. The first part ran Oct. 23, 2006; and the second part ran a day later.
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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.