The Mackerel Wrapper

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

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

COMM 386: Anchorage Daily News ... Palin a sideshow or has she stirred up something real?

From today's Anchorage Daily News, which has been closely following Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's foray into national politics, an aggragator with links to stories about Palin in media outlets from the Mudflats blog in Anchorage to Le Monde in France (as reported on SFgate.com, the San Francisco Chronicle's website.

Here's why I'm linking to it. We talked in class today about racial issues and how they are playing out in the campaign, and the ADN collects several stories that comment on things we were talking about. A summary graf tpward top of today's (Wednesday, Oct. 15) blog:
McCain-Palin camp takes criticism from all sides over attack campaign. Dipping poll numbers and pundits on the right and left are assailing the attack strategy that Sarah Palin launched in the last days of the campaign linking Barack Obama to Bill Ayers as "palling around with terrorists." Here's a look at news reports and analysis from across the political spectrum, with special attention to whether McCain will raise what had been a Palin line at tonight's final debate.
Whether or not McCain raises the issue tonight, personal attacks on Obama with a "racially tinged subtext" are part of the discourse now.
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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.