http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802 Latest Articles Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:44:12 GMT http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802artid=23  It was like something out of Marvel Comics.  Sarah palin, hero, stood up for the little people, the ones without voices, and won.   Nobody expected her . It was pure marvel comics. She strapped on her. On the other side. The polite, well mannered Ezekiel Emanuel. The man the health care. Bill,. The man who staffers …talked to, shaping ideas.   Sarah palin had nothing but right on her side.   And the mainstream media? It was like something out of the ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802&artid=23 http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802artid=24 Christopher Hitchens discussing atheism with Sean Hannity. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802&artid=24 http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802artid=21   One word can say it all-- English professor Dr .Branson Woodard gives his personal analysis of President Obama’s recent speech to Congress, sprinkled with some sharp wit and intriguing rhetorical insight. (Photograph: ComputerWeekly.com).   The moment came suddenly and with great fanfare. It was to be the defining moment about a White House plan for health care.    But from the opening lines of Mr. Obama’s recent address to a Joint Session of Congress, ... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802&artid=21 http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802artid=19 Mediahope.com is dedicated to educating and equipping university students to deal with the media-heavy society they face in life after college. We believe it a vital skill for today’s generation to be able to recognize, analyze, and pinpoint specific pieces of news media that are practicing faulty and manipulative types of journalism. Distinguishing truth from manipulation is not only helpful in journalism, but in life.   And so we encourage the development of courses and ... Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802&artid=19 http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802artid=16 Teaching The Adventures of Robin Hood in a Popular Culture Course     No, we’re not talking about the version with the clever cartoon fox and his trusty bear companion. Professor Thomas Bertonneau had a slightly different film in mind when asked to teach a course called “Modern Media and Culture”. The 1938 “Flynn” (Errol, that is) version had something worth showing to his class of undergrads—film as art has something to say about the culture ... Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802&artid=16 http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802artid=18   Who knew that regular tuition included a free license to be “kinky.” Apparently, at several universities around the country, it’s becoming the norm. Mike Adams takes a look at higher education dollars at work in this piece, originally appearing on TownHall.com, April 6, 2009.    I just got back from a weekend of yuppie camping in Santa Barbara, California. I knew that upon my return my inbox would be full of emails asking that I write about various campus ... Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802&artid=18 http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802artid=2 "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is,' is," Bill Clinton notoriously said during his 1998 grand jury testimony on the Monica Lewinsky affair. And, in regard to the war on terrorism, journalism educators and mainstream media are Rather Clintonesque (bad pun intended): it depends upon the meaning of the word 'truth.' Virgnia Tech professor Jim Kuypers, author of the penetrating book Bush's War, tells of the dishonesty that is part and parcel of how we educate journalists and ... Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802&artid=2 http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802artid=3 Who hasn't gotten frustrated with a company or employer that resists change? In the business world, an organization that resists change for too long loses its ability to compete in the market and goes under. For most that means there is motivation to embrace at least some innovation. In academia, however, lack of change is a commodity called "tradition" – and according to Dr. Frederick M. Hess, it might be time for the scholars to learn a new business model. Out with the old, ... Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802&artid=3 http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802artid=1 Okay, journalists are biased and manipulative. And journalism and reality are…well, apples and oranges. Did you ever wonder why our journalism is so divorced from reality? This Stanford University professor and former head of the nation’s largest journalism education association has thought long and deeply. Well, as Shakespeare would have put it if he were alive and commenting on contemporary media matters, “the fault dear Brutus, is not in our stars”…but in ... Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802&artid=1 http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802artid=6 If “sex sells,” was does today’s sex education do--maybe the equivalent of false advertising? It’s been over sixty years since Kinsey’s Sex Behavior in the Human Male jumped hot off the press and into the (left) hands of sex educators everywhere. Kinsey may have parted the Red Sea with his revolutionary study, but some of his “beneficiaries,” the black community, are drowning in a deluge of “enlightening” wreckage. Research guru Dr. Judith ... Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mediahope.com/index.cfm?PID=18802&artid=6