The Mackerel Wrapper

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

Monday, April 09, 2012

Worth a thousand words?

Screen shot from the Google news page the morning of April 9, 2012. Note juxtaposition of picture, headline and story:

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1 comment:

Robyn said...

Yet another example of a story not matching up with the picture presented. This is seen much more often on news sites, specifically on sites people often make their homepage (Google, Bing, MSN).

I know some websites will have a misleading picture with a vague title, though this was definitely a mistake.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 2:29:00 PM CDT

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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.