The Mackerel Wrapper

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

Sunday, February 15, 2009

COMM 209, 390: The future of journalism?

Students who have been in my other classes know one of my favorite editorial cartoonists is David Horsey of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. And those who are taking me this semester are no doubt beginning to figure it out.

Here, offered without comment, is a link to today's (Sunday's) cartoon:


Founded in 1863, the P-I was put up for sale Jan. 9 by its publisher, the Hearst Corp. If a buyer isn't found by the end of February, the paper will close its doors for good.

Horsey's cartoon is apparently prompted by his thoughts on the National Press Foundation's 26th annual awards dinner ... which he also blogged on last week. It's not happy reading, but, then, Horsey's about to lose his job in a couple of weeks.
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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.