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Mass Media in the News (Week of 11/4/12)
Recent news relevant to the study of mass media
Storified by WilliamHartPhD · Sat, Nov 03 2012 11:32:58
FEATURED STORIES: Hurricane Hoaxes
On The Media - Hurricane Hoaxes and Confused ReportingThe 24-hour news cycle and social media provided consumers with up to the minute images and information about the toll of Sandy. Too bad ...
McDonald's in Virginia Beach Flooded: Fact or Faked Photo? [PIC] [VID]This is a Hurricane Sandy related photo that is "floating" around social media (Twitter, Instagram, etc.). But, is it really a photo of ...
MORE MEDIA NEWS: Something Moore about Sandy
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American Apparel Angers Twittersphere With 'Hurricane Sandy Sale'An American Apparel ad for a "Hurricane Sandy Sale" has sparked backlash from the Twittersphere. The retailer sent out an email blast Mon...
As Sandy Storms Ashore, Some Tweets Become Unreliable Source of Information - TVNewserThe great thing about Twitter: it's a great way to communicate news as it happens. The bad thing about Twitter, that news may not have re...
Tom Phillips: Correcting tweets 'like putting toothpaste back in the tube' | Poynter.PandoDaily | The Verge David Holmes interviews Tom Phillips, whose "Is Twitter Wrong?" Tumblr neatly debunked many false photos from Hurr...
MORE MEDIA NEWS: "In other news"
Robin Roberts, MSNBC on Ebony Power 100 List - TVNewserEbony magazine has revealed its Power 100 list of the most influential African Americans. On the list, Pres. Barack and Michelle Obama , ...
Exclusive: The Young and the Restless Launches Teen Cyberbully PlotDon't mess with Summer Newman. On Monday, Nov. 5, CBS' The Young and the Restless kicks off a cyberbully story featuring the gorgeous but...
The role of news media in figuring out election winners, by @AP - :: LNR Journalism ::AP | Washington Post :: Ever hear about national elections where the winners aren't known for days as government officials count votes an...
Pew: MSNBC, Fox News Play Favorites In Tone - TVNewserA survey from Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism shows that when it comes to covering politics, horse-race coverage remains king,...
Hollywood Seeks to Slow Cultural Shift to TVBut it's starting to feel as if it might be "The Last Picture Show." Next year's Academy Awards ceremony - the 85th since 1929 - will be ...
Disney Buying Lucasfilm for $4 BillionRichard Lewis/European Pressphoto Agency LOS ANGELES - The Walt Disney Company, in a move that gives it a commanding position in the worl...
Disney and Star Wars join forces - FT.comMickey Mouse has forged an unlikely alliance with Darth Vader after Walt Disney agreed a $4bn deal to acquire Lucasfilm, the company behi...
Penguin, Random House Announce Merger : NPRThere's big news in the world of publishing: The two conglomerates that own Random House and Penguin announced Monday that they were merg...
Random House and Penguin to Be CombinedThe announcement on Monday that Random House and Penguin would merge narrows the business to a handful of big publishers, and could set o...
Coursera, edX, and MOOCs Are Changing the Online Education Business | MIT Technology ReviewIf you were asked to name the most important innovation in transportation over the last 200 years, you might say the combustion engine, a...
Digital Literacies 101 - What MOOCs Really Teach | Inside Higher Ed
Technology Is Changing How Students Learn, Teachers SayThe researchers note that their findings represent the subjective views of teachers and should not be seen as definitive proof that wides...
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