Link here to the story on Barack Obama's event Saturday in downtown Springfield. Rich Miller, who writes the blog, is one of the best political reporters in the business. The State Journal-Register also has a pre-story (or -stories) by J-R political columnist Bernie Schoenberg. He is also a very good reporter. We'll be keeping up with both this semester, especially when the state Legislature comes back for the "veto session" in November.
I will be assigning you to compare the coverage of Obama's campaign event in local, state (in other words Chicago) and national news media. Details to follow. If your schedule permits you to attend the rally, tentatively scheduled for 1 p.m. at the Old State Capitol, I strongly encourage you to do so.
A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.
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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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