ARCHIVE - Andrew Olmsted's blog

ARCHIVE - Framing Freedom: Final Project

Andrew Olmsted — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:24:20 -0700

Hi,

Here is my final project work. The powerpoint presentation is too large to post here so I will just post all the slides as individual attachments. It seems the pictures are first, then the mindmpaps, then my paper, called "Framing Freedom.doc."

Thanks for a great quarter! -AWO

ARCHIVE - "Middle East Conflict Intensifies As Blah Blah Blah, Etc. Etc."

Andrew Olmsted — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:58:18 -0700

From theonion.com:

MIDDLE EAST—With the Iraq war in its fifth year, the war in Afghanistan in its sixth, and conflict between Israel and the rest of the region continuing unabated for more than half a century, intelligence sources are warning that a new wave of violence in the Middle East may soon blah blah blah, etc. etc., you know the rest.

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Yet another act of violence in response to something else terrible that occurred in, oh, let's say Basra.

ARCHIVE - The Daily Show and Colbert Report

Andrew Olmsted — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:05:03 -0700

We talked a bit in class about how "The Daily Show" ought to be required material for class. Even if Jon Stewart and others believe that it's a sad state of affairs that more college students get their news from Comedy Central than from anyplace else, I disagree. The television news is biased. Making fun of the news helps to emphasize that TV news is not to be taken seriously. "The Daily Show" has managed to subvert the cultural authority of television by turning viewers' attention to the way that the media frames truth and ideas. It is important to realize that, like the media, language also frames ideas in order to generate specific emotions and actions in the audience. (more)

ARCHIVE - "Court Rules MySpace Postings Free Speech"

Andrew Olmsted — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:27:58 -0700

Court Rules MySpace Postings Free Speech

POSTED: 2:00 am EDT April 10, 2007

[Taken directly from article]: Link to original article

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled that the free speech rights of a juvenile girl were violated when she was given probation for her foul-mouthed MySpace criticism of a school principal. The three-judge panel has ordered the Putnam Circuit Court to set aside its penalty against the girl, referred to only as A.B. in court records. The ruling said the judges do not condone what was said, but the message itself adds up to political speech.