Comments for Prof Chris Daly's Blog

Comment on Fight Fiercely, Jeremy! by Carol Kozma

Carol Kozma — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:04:29 +0000

I enjoy your enthusiasm in many of your pieces, especially how you tell readers how you relate to each piece. You want to be “a fly on the wall”, you’ve climbed aboard “the bandwagon” and you are very confused by the FCC. Yet, you also give relevant information throughout, and explain what is happening to the reader, walking him/her through each piece. Fun to read!

Comment on A great experiment by seo

seo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:29:51 +0000

With havin so much content and articles do you ever run into any issues of plagorism or copyright infringement? My website has a lot of exclusive content I’ve either authored myself or outsourced but it looks like a lot of it is popping it up all over the internet without my agreement. Do you know any methods to help protect against content from being stolen? I’d certainly appreciate it.

Comment on Romney coverage by Bob Gillingham

Bob Gillingham — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:00:16 +0000

So that is what happened to Pearl Hardware ……….Hope you are doing well, stay thirsty my friend, Bob

Comment on Barney Flashback: 1989 by Barney | Karin Zeitvogel

Barney | Karin Zeitvogel — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:33:25 +0000

[...] Daly, a professor of journalism at Boston University, wrote this about Frank on his blog. The blog post goes into not only Frank’s politics but also into the politics and wheelings [...]

Comment on Shame! by profdaly

profdaly — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:14:00 +0000

Yep. But don’t take my word for it. You could look it up!

Comment on Shame! by Karin Zeitvogel

Karin Zeitvogel — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:43:19 +0000

Bloomberg’s from Meffid?

Comment on How the Lawyers Stole Winter by brandy

brandy — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:41:17 +0000

a wonderful essay chris. I grew up in the 60′s and 70′s and skating was my hobby all the time. Thanks for sharing that.

Comment on Media bias? Not so much by mmetrics1

mmetrics1 — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:55:13 +0000

Great post.

The more I study media bias, the more it occurs to me that coverage tends towards the extremes because viewers “vote” with their eyeballs. We get a disproportionate amount of scrutiny on sexual harassment allegations for a variety of reasons, but one of them is certainly because the story line is driving up viewership. Combined with the amount of bandwidth dedicated to the news, media outlets are motivated to keep a hot story alive by digging up all kinds of corner cases, then sensationalizing them as “new developments.” In contrast, giving Michelle Bachmann more air time than she has viewing interest does not make sense for the network. It’s an inexact science, but their job is to promote viewership … which drives ad revenue …which increases company profits, equity value, and personal paychecks.

It’s tempting to see a conspiracy here, but I think this is mostly just capitalism in action.

Comment on How the Lawyers Stole Winter by profdaly

profdaly — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:00:06 +0000

Thanks for your note. I would just tell your friend that, as with pond skating, it’s a good idea to be careful around fire!
~Chris

Comment on How the Lawyers Stole Winter by Susan Carpenter Sims

Susan Carpenter Sims — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:05:32 +0000

I love this essay, and have used it in my Developmental English classes. Just discovered it here because I was chatting with a friend on Facebook who wants to put real candles on his Christmas tree this year, but after some Googling, he only came up with one company in Germany that sells them. (There were, however, other sites selling LED “candles.”) Made me think of this essay, which I then mentioned to him; he asked for a copy, and voila! I landed here. Just in case you were wondering.