Links on the Ave From The Hill From Blatherwatch From Firedoglake Glenn Beck’s Focus on CUNY Professor Brings Her Death Threats The other side. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Media’
Radical Radio Rhetoric
from Blatherwatch, by Michael Hood: Dori’s latest ‘outrage’ Ed. This essay is a good example of why I read Blatherwatch .. Seattle’s blog focused on the strange world of radio and radio talk. For those blessed enough not to have ever listened to Dori Monson, he a bizarre [...]
Open Season on Politicians Who Plagiarize
Guttenberg has since lost his Ph.D. and completely withdrawn from public life. from Der Spiegel by Oliver Trenkamp It started with Germany’s defense minister. But once Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg lost his job, many of the researchers who uncovered his plagiarized dissertation have moved on to n[...]
April 27th, 2011 - 12:16 am § in Schools & Colleges
MLA President’s call to action on federal budget plans
from Found in Translation BlogOf course, the languages here at Udub are threatened. Who needs them? As a scientist, I sure don’t. Anywhere I go my colleagues damn well better speak English and write it well .. or no one will be able to talk with them. Funny to watch .. a Chinese and a [...]
April 25th, 2011 - 8:59 pm § in America
Glenn Beck, STILL Contaminates Seattle Radio …Must Go
Links on the Ave From The Hill From Blatherwatch From Firedoglake Glenn Beck’s Focus on CUNY Professor Brings Her Death Threats The other side. [...]
April 22nd, 2011 - 1:43 pm § in America
Poon Caught in Unfunny Prank
Ed. Why is this funny? It is funny to ME because the National Lampoon grew out of my college humor magazine, The Harvard Lampoon. Only Harvards (what we call ourselves) could pull off creating a national commercial success out of a college prank pub. Still not funny? Well, the nationalization [...]
Who is Morozov? Amazing ideas about education, freedom, and the internet!
This cartoon is awesome. I can not summarize what is in this cartoon … ritalin, the enlightenment, radical right classist efforts to restrict education, … get some coffee, tea or a glass of wine and WATCH! from a comment at YouTube: “It would be nice to see the President (us[...]
April 16th, 2011 - 8:54 am § in Environment, Religion
Frank Lutz: How to Keep NPR Funded!
from the Dianne Rheems show: There are five different types of people for you to reach out to. Rejecters, Disagreeables, Neutrals, Accepters and Embracers. Each one of those terms means something. You need to forget the Rejecters because there’s nothing you can do to influence them. “The[...]
April 12th, 2011 - 1:46 pm § in Misc.
Michael Jackson Statue Erected in London
from the Independent: Michael Jackson – Fulham’s chairman Mohammed al Fayed says that fans can “go to hell” if they don’t like the new statue of the pop legend Ed. Seattle has Lenin and London has the successor to the Beetles. Makes sense to me! [...]
BECK … a petition
FROM BLATHERWATCH. If you want to hear Glenn Beck’s violent, paranoid rants, tune in every weekday from 6 am to 9 am on Seattle’s KTTH AM 770 — or the 8 other radio stations in Washington that broadcast Beck. Maybe that’s one of the places that Charlie Wilson, who was arrested la[...]