I LOVE movie musicals. I grew up on “The Wizard of Oz” and  “Singin’ in the Rain.” I know every song in “The Sound of Music,” even the ones that were in the stage version but got left out of … Continue reading »

Today I found out about The Mountain Goats because the Denton Police Department started posting everybody they arrest on Twitter and Twitpic, and The Mountain Goats wrote a song called The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton about Jeff … Continue reading »

Burger King has a long history of disastrous alliances with ad agencies that just can’t seem to get a grasp of this whole fast-food thing. Despite being named one of the “top 3 industry-changing advertisers within the last three decades” … Continue reading »

The 2009 Bateman team from Loyola has once again made the Top 3 (out of 77 competitors) in the national public relations case study competition put on annually by the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA). Team members – … Continue reading »

April 20 marks the beginning of Turnoff Week 2009. (There’s another one starting Sept. 20.) It’s an effort by the national nonprofit organization TV-Free America, founded in 1994 to raise awareness of our couch-potato society’s increasing obesity and to generate … Continue reading »

At Thursday’s Spring Fiesta we recognized our outstanding mass comm majors, students who have received scholarships and will receive awards during Honors Day ceremonies. It made me realize the SMC is home to many students who are engaged, involved and … Continue reading »

If you didn’t make it, you missed a great opportunity! Networking Night (April 14) brought together more than 100 media and communication professionals and mass comm students from around the city. The Press Club and the SMC co-sponsored the event, … Continue reading »

It is entirely feasible that, more or less soon, your life — your entire life — can be recorded and stored.  Instead of posting the occasional Twitter update, instead of compiling the sporadic online photo album, why not just leave … Continue reading »

A flying ice cream truck (interesting story) diverted my Spring Break trip from the autobahn (aka Interstate) to the back roads. I didn’t mind; it gave me a chance to see the countryside at eye level, going 35 miles an … Continue reading »

In a recent interview by one of our journalism students, I was asked why I thought the new digital communication class, A201 – Digital Communication, is necessary. In typical academic fashion, my first instinct was to turn the question back on … Continue reading »