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Tweets
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 hr ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 7 hrs ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 1 day ago
- Things I'm not doing this weekend: http://t.co/ZEW612Im #fb 3 days ago
- Filming a congressional hearing? Be ready to be arrested for it. http://t.co/C7fuwy9k #fb 4 days ago
- Campus is changing to require password updates 2x a year. Their recommendation for a "tough" password: @Qu2012! Yeah. #fb 5 days ago
- Maybe the AAA (http://t.co/2S4falTt) should listen to @cshirky ToTN (http://t.co/EAs81JRv). 5 days ago
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Monthly Archives: April 2003
Fallujah Massacre?
Speaking of propaganda… Two hundred thirty-three years ago, Paul Revere printed and circulated this etching of the Boston Massacre. This image sent a fairly clear message about what was in fact a very messy situation. There can be little doubt that Revere and other revolutionary propagandists made use of the event to turn the tide [...]
War of words
At the end of last year, I decried the lack of a coherent propaganda offensive, and suggested that “We have an amazing marketing and PR machine in the US. You would think that we could sell the country a bit better.” A recent Slate article (Bad Information) lays the blame at the doorstep of Charlotte [...]
The dog ate it
When Jamie and I get ready in the morning, Finnegan lies just at the intersection of the bathroom and the bedroom, so that he can flick his eyes back and forth to monitor our ablutions and arrangements, without having to work too hard to maintain a doleful visage. (And though Jamie insists that the latter [...]
Communication of SARS
Why should a communication scholar care about SARS? There are some obvious answers to this, many of them having to do with risk communication. For instance, why should we be worrying about SARS when you are still far more likely to be killed by a lightning strike (let alone an auto accident or heart disease). [...]
The falls
Took one of the candidates up to Niagara Falls yesterday. It was a good day to go. It was also a kind of forced mini-vacation. I really couldn’t have justified that time away from work–but my tour guide services were needed. The photo here is taken from Goat Island, right between the American and Canadian [...]

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