Exhibitors After viewing the Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, WV, Larry Blalock and I went to the 49th Appalachian Studies Association Conference at Marshall University in Huntington, WV. We were tabling for our site and took videos summarizing day 1 of the Appalachian Studies Conference. The above video summarizes the exhibitors at the conference. It […]

I thought I would take a break from the coronavirus pandemic and politics to take a look at the history of the craft we call journalism.  The late 1800s were a period of yellow journalism led by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst where sensational headlines were what sold newspapers.  There were trailblazing male and […]

It has been a turbulent year for me with moving and other responsibilities.  Since my last anniversary post I have written 27 posts here compared to 41 posts the year before, a 52% decrease.  The decrease in posts is reflected in a 19% decrease in traffic.  This discrepancy in the traffic and the posts suggests […]

Get More: Comedy Central,Funny Videos,Funny TV Shows The clip above from the Daily Show (the first on this blog with new host Trevor Noah) discusses how traditional journalism is being supplanted by computer algorithms that can create legible news articles from multiple sources on the web.  In my field I have recently become acquainted with […]

  The PBS program Religion and Ethics Newsweekly had a discussion of the ethics of social media sites like Facebook and OK Cupid to elicit a specific reaction from their users. I have written before about how sites like these manipulate news feeds either to tell you what they think you want to hear or […]