{"id":9687,"date":"2014-06-08T06:52:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T10:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/oct_09\/"},"modified":"2023-12-07T10:02:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T15:02:28","slug":"2009-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/2009-october\/","title":{"rendered":"2009: October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9\u00a0 I&#8217;ve just returned from a visit to St Louis where I participated in the Gateway Media Literacy Partners media literacy week. I had a great time speaking to communications students at Lindenwood University; conducting a workshop for teachers; and being a panelist after the screening of the film &#8220;Good Night and Good Luck&#8221; at Webster University.<\/p>\n<p>1\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/usc_book_talk.htm\">photos<\/a> from the Book Talk\/Luncheon held at the SC State Library<\/p>\n<table id=\"table69\" border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"189\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/oct_091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"292\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>Knight Commission Report includes<a href=\"http:\/\/www.knightcomm.org\/recommendation6\/\"> strong recommendations<\/a> for including media literacy education in schools<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"189\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/whatsn16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"233\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nOrca Books announces a limited time <a href=\"http:\/\/mediameltdown.net\/index.html\">free download<\/a> of its newest media literacy graphic novel: Media Meltdown<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"189\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/whatsn15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"233\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td>October issue<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h4><a title=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200910\/media\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200910\/media\">The Story Behind the Story<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Much of the news you see on TV is the work of political hit men\u2014not journalists. And it\u2019s only getting worse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>FOREIGN AFFAIRS<\/p>\n<h4><a title=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200910\/al-jazeera\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200910\/al-jazeera\">Why I Love Al Jazeera<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The Arab TV channel is visually stunning, exudes hustle, and covers the globe like no one else. Just beware of its insidious despotism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/images\/site_images\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>INTERNET<\/p>\n<h4><a title=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200910\/moguls\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200910\/moguls\">The Moguls\u2019 New Clothes<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Don\u2019t blame the Internet for the dismal performance of big media companies. Blame inept executives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve just returned from a visit to St Louis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-whats-new"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36370,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions\/36370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}