GodTube: A video site for the right wing

Media Guardian has the details at http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/comment/0,,2068695,00.html
Here is a quick overview from the article:
''GodTube ("Broadcast Him") is part of the conservative Christian counterweb that now runs in tandem with the wider online world: Conservapedia and Creationwiki.org look just like Wikipedia but are free from the unpleasant left- liberal bias that tends to accompany the truth. There's even a "Christian MySpace Alternative" called DittyTalk (the explanation for the name is longwinded and unconvincing - surely it's designed to ensnare surfers who type "dirtytalk" too quickly?). Here, everyone who signs up gets at least one friend: Jesus.''

University of Montenegro students, faculty visit Dubrovnik

Obavijest I Poziv Studentima!

Students and faculty from Monte Negro and Croatia have created a partnership for exchanges on topics in the media. Above are photos of University of Dubrovnik students at the April 2007 conference in Croatia. This was the first time students from Monte Negro visited Croatia; last May (2006) students from Croatia visited the Monte Negro university. Topics discussed and presented in April ranged from controversies about embedded journalists to Judith Miller and her role in WMD reporting to sensationalism in the news. From May 11-13, a group of Croatian students will visit Podgorica to discuss ''Globalization or Localization of Media.''

Asian Americans call for firing of radio jocks

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/25/BAGG7PFKAJ3.DTL

What's what with this Virginia Tech photo?

http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003577358

Lithuania creates unique recycling campaign

From Advertising Age: Published: April 26, 2007
"EMP is a new concept in Lithuania, an electrical goods recycling firm that will come and collect your old TVs and fridges from your home. The low-budget media campaign to launch the company needed to show people just how irritating it was to be stuck with old appliances. Old TVs were placed on seats of public transportation, and specially built outdoor boards topped billboard messages with a collection of redundant TVs. EMP could hardly keep up with the incoming phone calls."

UNC posts photos of the 'unwelcome'

My university received national coverage this week for its posting of names and photos of people who are not welcome on campus. If anyone on campus sees any of these people, they must notify the university police. Listen to the interview with a student newspaper editor on the national public radio station: http://216.35.221.77/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9847309

Here is the story from the school paper: The Banned Bunch: http://www.uncmirror.com/news/2007/04/27/News/The-Banned.Bunch-2884993.shtml?reffeature=textemailedition

The actual Web site: http://www.unco.edu/police/banned/index.html

How do you get your favorite music?

More and more young people in the UK are downloading their music illegally. See if their reasoning about WHY they do this matches your reasoning.

Published: Wednesday April 25, 2007, at MediaGuardian.co.uk
"More than a quarter of young people in the UK are prepared to illegally download music and films because they distrust the entertainment industry, according to research.
A survey by PR group Edelman found that 41% of 18- to 34-year-olds do not trust the entertainment industry to provide value for money, and 34% do not trust companies to respect the rights of those who do pay for digital content.
The research found that 27% of young people have already downloaded content illegally or would do so.
Resentment over the perceived high cost of digital services and usability problems, such as incompatible formats - for example iPod users only being able to play music downloaded from Apple's iTunes - has contributed to this distrust."

Your thoughts about Professor Dorde for my article, please!

Don't forget!
I am writing an article about Professor Dorde Obradovic. I will interview him, of course, but I would also like to include his students' comments. If you would like to be quoted in my story and have something to say about the professor, please e-mail me with your comments (leeanne.peck@unco.edu) or come to the office (E03) and I will take your statements. Thanks for your help. You may also post your comments to this blog.
Posted by Lee Anne Peck, Ph.D. at 11:39 AM 0 comments

UNC student-musician writes, sings VT tribute

One of my journalism students in Colorado, Tyler Ward (who is also a musician), has written a song as a tribute to Virginia Tech. Listen to it here.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2023892254
Also, a story from my university's school newspaper (published Wednesday, April 25) covering a candlelight vigil for VT students on Monday, April 23:
http://www.uncmirror.com/media/storage/paper972/news/2007/04/25/News/Candle.In.The.Rain-2879133-page2.shtml
Also, a site created at my school just for VT: http://www.unco.edu/vtresponse/

Brazilian city bans billboards

A city without billboards! What will happen to a society without outdoor advertising?
http://www.adrants.com/2007/04/sao-paulo-purges-ads-no-were-not-kidding.php

Network had to do some ethical decision-making

NBC News received the VA Tech gunman's videos and writings. What to do with them? Lots of pondering. The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/18/AR2007041802791.html
Then CBC (of Canada) says NBC was wrong to do what it did!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/about/burman/letters/2007/04/a_story_of_victims_and_issues.html What do YOU think?
More ethical pondering from the Global Ethics weekly newsletter: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=4/23/2007&id=04230720534696
Free-lancer says NBC was correct to air Cho video
http://www.cjrdaily.org/behind_the_news/post_31.php

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/