The Mackerel Wrapper

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

Friday, October 23, 2009

COMM 317: On board in class Friday

Marketplace of ideas

Freedom of expression

One’s opinion -- uncensored opinion

Opinion should be backed up by facts

PRSA -- responsible advocate -- provide a voice in the marketplace of facts, ideas and viewpoints to aid and inform public debate -- PR companies investigate clients for truthfulness, accuracy of info

central point of opinions and facts

taking a thought or opinion giving it credit, credibility by publishing

something that has value and can be backed up by

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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.