More ads from America

Advertising Age presents eight notable advertisements from television: Take a look.
http://adage.com/vidt?pId=1

Media go to VA Tech student sites for info

Media Guardian reports: http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2059159,00.html

Cell phones turn witnesses into reporters

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20070417_Ellen_Gray___CELL_PHONES__Turning_witnesses_into_reporters.html
Philadelphia newspaper columnist discusses the "citizen videographer" via CNN's student I-Reporter.

Also, "complete coverage" of the Virginia Tech massacre from the Poynter Institute: http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=121499

Another stupid Burger King ad!

View it and read about it at http://adage.com/garfield/article?article_id=116110

SPJ ethics code in Croatian

See the code, translated into Croatian by Professor Vilovic, at this link: http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
Click on "Croatian" on the right side of the Web page.

'To Catch a Predator' and ethics

"Caught up in the chase" is an article about the NBC "Dateline" series about catching sexual predators. The article is published in Quill by Fred Brown of the SPJ ethics committee.
Read it at: http://www.spj.org/quill_issue.asp?ref=1093

Public Service Announcements from Montana: Do not try meth

Very moving spots that were shared last week on Adrants: http://www.adrants.com/2007/04/montana-meth-campaign-instills-anger-desp.php#more
Look at the four PSAs at the above link.

Additional 'photo-shopped' pictures from Toledo

The photographer we discussed last week (the one who deleted the legs from the sports photo) apparently has manipulated other photos previously published in the Toledo Blade. See the Editor and Publisher update here: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003571081

MTV Canada broadcasts a public service announcement!

Don't do drugs and drive. I think this is the msg the ad is trying to convey: View at http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/4135/

MediaShift disses U.S. j-schools

Mark Glaser, PBS host of MediaShift, says j-schools need to get with it--move into new media--NOW. MediaShift is described as the following: "MediaShift is a weblog that will track how new media—from weblogs to podcasts to citizen journalism—are changing society and culture." See Glaser's writing at http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/

Back in Black

Comedian Lewis Black discusses the world as it really is: http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=84325&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=%2Fshows%2Fthe_daily_show%2Findex.jhtml&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true

WSJ report: Blogging might land U a job!

People in search of young talent spend time reading blogs these days. They are looking for the perfect job candidates. Check out the WSJ article: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117616542652964558-37h9w0gGTlaQoLNb_8JTrahC1vw_20080409.html?mod=blogs

More ads to watch: eight of them!

Thanks to AdAge.com for putting new ad spots on its Web site each week.
Check out: http://adage.com/vidt?pId=1

Pillow fight too violent for TV?

An advertisement for the Toronto Blue Jays was recently deemed too violent and taken off the air. What do you think. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/business/media/09jays.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&8seia=&oref=slogin&emc=seia&adxnnlx=1176199015-sc2E9BMTx54eaZi6385pNQ

U.S. Northwestern journalism school may open branch in Qatar

You might not have to travel to the U.S. to get a prestigious U.S. journalism degree. See: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0704050721apr06,1,5329061.story

This week's TV ads from Amerike!

Advertising Age online presents the most interesting TV ads each week--much more interesting, I hope, than the new ''Got Milk" campaign. Watch them at http://adage.com/vidt?pId=1

Create your own blog--just for the experience

Very easy to do! (I am not that technologically savvy, so to speak, and I created not one but two recently. )

Go to www.blogger.com to create your blog! Call it something amazing, please.

Starbucks promotion smells

Check out this story from the NYT re: Starbucks latest promotion:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/business/media/02adcol.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Liquor ads! Just because you drink tequila doesn't mean you'll 'get some,' right?

Why don't U.S. advertising agencies get it? Stop showing sexy people hooking up because they drank your client's product. (Well, it might be true, but, gosh, it's just not politically correct these days.) Read about all the ads that were allegedly voluntarily withdrawn. From Advertising Age:http://adage.com/article?article_id=115839

McDonald's has new UK ad campaign

I would call this citizen advertising? http://media.guardian.co.uk/advertising/story/0,,2046896,00.html