The Mackerel Wrapper

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

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

COMM 386: Two links from today's Washington Post

Howard Kurtz gives his take on Barack Obama in today's "Media Notes" column. It's based on personal observation -- unusually so for Kurtz, who prefers to hide out in the woodwork -- and therefore very interesting.

Also a Washington Post blog called "Behind the Numbers" has a wealth of information about the latest tracking polls and what they tell us about: (1) the media; and (2) government. Sounds like us, doesn't it?

Description of the blog at http://blog.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2007/04/about_behind_the_numbers_1.html.
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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.