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Communication Concerns

http://communicationconcerns.blogspot.com/

This site turns a critical, and sometimes, amusing eye on the world of communications. From critiques of major events (and pseudo-events), to pop culture blurbs-- verbal messages, nonverbal cues, symbols and images are open for review.

• Added on: Sep 17th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: gary shaffer
• Listed in: Culture Education & Learning
• Tags: Culture Communications media television postman mass communications

Recent Posts

• See me. Feel me. Touch me. Read me.

  Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 11:30 in digital media, mass communications, hyper-local news, fisher communications

  The trend toward hyper-local news continued this week as Seattle-based Fisher Communications announced the launch of 38 neighborhood news Web sites.Fisher operates radio and TV stations in Oregon, Seattle and Idaho. The company said the new "hyper-lo...

• Um…like…you know

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 16:39 in trigger words, mass communications, interpersonal communications

  In communications, “trigger words” are those words or phrases that press our buttons and cause a strong emotional reaction. So which word pulls the biggest trigger?According to a Marist poll released yesterday, “whatever” tops the list. The p...

• Balancing Act

  Posted on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 15:21 in journalism, fox news, Bill O'Reilly, the factor, bernie goldberg

  A pretty decent definition of “journalism” comes from a most unlikely source: Fox News. Bernie Goldberg makes some pretty good points about what it means to be a fair reporter on Bill O’Reilly’s show.However, O’Reilly deserves a demerit or ...

• TV or Not TV

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 16:35 in TV, Advertising, broadcasting

  According to Reuters, Americans are watching an average of 151 hours of television a month. Great news for networks and advertisers. The only problem is that the ways people watch (and what they watch) are changing. New technologies mean more ways t...

• William Safire, Khloe Kardashian and the State of Journalism

  Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 15:48 in journalism, lamar odom, william safire, khloe kardashian

  "Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."-William Safire "cant stand peps cant believe Im promoting sumthing bc I believe in the product!! 2 bad the 1s who hate will never really b happy!"-Khloe Kardashi...

• Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

  Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 16:40 in beatles, rock band

  Sure all this Beatles 09.09.09 stuff has been called the Magical Marketing Tour, but the first 25 seconds of the Beatles Rock Band ad (below) are freaky good....

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This blog is currently rated a 4.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

tom wilson

Funny and informative.

Posted: September 10th, 2009 | Report This Comment

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