A Cartoon at the Expense of Twitter

Inspired by a post at Brother Pabst's fishlanguage, I commented, and in that comment imagined a hypothetical cartoon, and the creative excitement rose to such a degree that I stole an image online so that I could create the cartoon. So it's no longer hypothetical.

Are you twittering this?

Brother Pabst Pointed to This: Media Chaos = Darn Good Fun (for Those Pointing the Finger)

How does this affect teaching journalism. I'm not going to come up with the solution; I just hope I recognize the solution when someone else comes up with it.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. After the O.J. Verdict

Brother Greg Pabst sent the link:

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1995/10/23/1995_10_23_056_TNY_CARDS_000372419

It's a wonderful essay, discursive and filled with style and insight. GP had already pulled out the money quote:

“Blacks—in particular, black men—swap their experiences of police
encounters like war stories, and there are few who don’t have more
than one story to tell.”