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Is Google Friend or Foe? The Answer is Yes.

Posted on March 13, 2013 by tvguy321

Google has been my Internet default page for as long as I can remember. I think it used to be MSN.com, but I got tired of pseudo-news getting in the way of the things I actually wanted to see. It …

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Do Media Outlets Really Have to Shock Us? Unfortunately They Do.

Posted on February 25, 2013 by tvguy321

Arielle Emmett’s article, Too Graphic, discusses the feeling that some critics have been expressing lately with regards to the media’s seeming lack of taste or tact when displaying graphic images, especially in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti. Going …

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Newt Minnow – Still Alive, Still Advocating

Posted on February 20, 2013 by tvguy321

Last week I was star-struck at having read the article by Tim Berners-Lee. I couldn’t believe that the guy who I had just learned was the guy who invented the Internet (not Al Gore), was talking to us via our …

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Is Tim Berners-Lee the New Lorax?

Posted on February 13, 2013 by tvguy321

“Tim Berners-Lee” was one of the answers to an exam that we took recently in one of my RTV courses here at UCF. He is credited as the first person to pioneer what we know as today’s Internet using HTTP …

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In Egypt, The Invisible Hand Meets the Virtual Fist

Posted on February 5, 2013 by tvguy321

Any elementary course in Humanities teaches that throughout history, societies have always been constructed of a privileged minority who control an impoverished majority. Churches, monarchies, and governments have perfected the art of separating the haves from the have nots and …

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Filtration and Empathy – How Journalism Will Stay Relevant in the Future

Posted on January 29, 2013 by tvguy321

There is a common, and important theme developing in many of the essays we read. This theme is given many names such as “overload,” “information pollution” or ” social narcissism,” but at it’s essence it all boils down to the …

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Too Much Information? When Does Analysis Create Paralysis?

Posted on January 23, 2013 by tvguy321

I have been very fortunate to spend a good amount of time living both in and out of the United States for most of my life. I have spent extended amounts of time in Italy, France and Japan. It is …

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In The Beginning Was the Irony – Christine Rosen’s Social Narcissism

Posted on January 14, 2013 by tvguy321

It’s difficult to know if when writing “In the Beginning Was the Word”, that Christine Rosen knew that her article, lamenting modern society’s inability to read the printed word, would be reproduced in tiny font in a textbook, making it …

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