Analysis For the first time in 23 years, southern Illinois was paid a visit by the President of The United States of America on Saturday, October 27. Thousands of people came from across the Heartland to see President Donald Trump as he spoke at the Southern Illinois Airport in Murphysboro, Illinois. The previous president to come to the area was former President Bill … [Read more...] about The contrasting national, local and pro-Trump media perspectives of Trump’s rally in southern Illinois
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Not your typical journalist’s memoir
Lucky Severson, Lucky From Virgin: An Unlikely Story, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018 (Available only on Amazon on Kindle edition, $7.09, 390 pages.) Lucky Severson’s new book Lucky From Virgin is a memoir of sorts, but not in the typical fashion. There is no overarching storyline detailing his life. It seems to be broken up into unrelated smaller … [Read more...] about Not your typical journalist’s memoir
YouTube and You
Paul Colligan, YouTube Strategies 2016, Colligan.com, Inc., 2016, $14.95, 182 pages. Author Paul Colligan considers himself a “new media master” and YouTube “expert.” In this book, he deals well with multi-media strategies, especially for YouTube and podcasts. He has published 14 books, all of which can be seen as guidance for newcomers in the field of new-media. Some of his … [Read more...] about YouTube and You
Ethics of 13 Reasons Why
Season One of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why was controversial. The series is about a teenage girl, Hannah, who commits suicide in the series’ finale. Before doing so, she records 13 reasons why she did it and includes a list of rules to accompany the tapes Friend and fellow high-school classmate, Clay, receives a mysterious box filled with audio cassette tapes … [Read more...] about Ethics of 13 Reasons Why
Understanding the Trump-era via contemporary horror cinema
Siegfried Kracauer wrote his astute book of film criticism, From Caligari to Hitler, in 1947. In it he explores the connection between the German Expressionist films of Weimar Cinema and the rise of Adolf Hitler. The relationship between Weimar Cinema and the sociological and psychological state of Germany in the wake of defeat after World War I is a key theme in this … [Read more...] about Understanding the Trump-era via contemporary horror cinema