A report on MSNBC News, with a nod to The Los Angeles Times' political blog that carried the link, on GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's bond with special-needs parents on the campaign trail. The Times doesn't make a political point of it, and I don't want to either. In fact, I think it's a pretty good piece of journalism.
File under "Doc's bromides about 'surprise' and working the edges of the crowd."
A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.
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- How Sarah Palin Was Unmasked / CBS News
- COMM 337: Assignment for last analytical paper
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- COMM 337: Surprise!
- COMM 337, 386: Satire on a blog (content advisory ...
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- COMM 337: Assignment for Wed. Pls post to your blogs
- COMM 337: OK, let's forget about the election and ...
- COMM 337, 386: Let's go off on a tangent (but it m...
- COMM 337: Judith Warner, combining the personal an...
- COMM 386: Two links from today's Washington Post
- COMM 337: Today's class discussion links
- COMM 337, 386: More on Peggy Noonan / ASSIGNED RRE...
- COMM 337: Trib makes history, endorses Obama
- COMM 386: Of Brits, raccoons, stereotypes, journal...
- COMM 386: Politico story -- 'Racists for Obama?'
- COMM 386: Stories on race
- COMM 337: Pls read, discuss in class and file unde...
- COMM 337 and 386: Sarah Palin and special-needs ch...
- COMM 207 -- midterm alert
- COMM 386: Anchorage Daily News ... Palin a sidesho...
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- COMM 337, 386: Sweet Potato Pie
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- COMM 207: Assignment for Thursday
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- COMM 337, 386: Fukuyama article / READING ASSIGNMENT
- Brooklyn artist takes (metaphorical) shot at Palin
- COMM 207 -- grids -- Thursday's assignment for class
- COMM: As Rome burns, Nero fiddles?
- COMM 386: Partisan systemic failure? / PLS READ!
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About Me
- Pete
- 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.
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