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In the midst of death
A brief meditation on Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death and the role of the fear of death in American politics and society
Jun 7, 2024
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Aaron S. Veenstra
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March 2024
A series of unfortunate kludges for doing content analysis of radio
It took a lot of tinkering, but I have finally constructed a very rickety but working method to capture multiple simultaneous radio streams, starting…
Mar 21, 2024
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Aaron S. Veenstra
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A series of unfortunate kludges for doing content analysis of radio
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December 2023
Journalism is context
It’s not too strong to say that, fundamentally, journalism is context. Facts have different meanings in different contexts, and the contextual work is…
Dec 20, 2023
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Aaron S. Veenstra
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October 2023
Opinion journalism that doesn't do journalism is just opinion
Opinion journalism, as a practice and as a body of work, takes a lot of flak.
Oct 21, 2023
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Aaron S. Veenstra
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Opinion journalism that doesn't do journalism is just opinion
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February 2017
News is not a market commodity
Putting your “real” news and other sources’ “fake” news in one big pot and expecting to float to the top fundamentally misunderstands what news is, and…
Feb 3, 2017
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Aaron S. Veenstra
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News is not a market commodity
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January 2017
Open tabs, January 25
Four quick links
Jan 26, 2017
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Aaron S. Veenstra
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The forest is made of trees
I saw Spotlight for the first time a few days ago, and as a dramatization of journalism there were two things that struck me as incredibly insightful…
Jan 4, 2017
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Aaron S. Veenstra
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The forest is made of trees
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December 2016
Moving forward: RQ5. Who sets Trump’s agenda?
In my post on media effects, I mentioned that Donald Trump himself had essentially become a media outlet as far as news information flows were…
Dec 29, 2016
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Aaron S. Veenstra
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Moving forward: RQ5. Who sets Trump’s agenda?
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The 2016 campaign was a study in media effects
As different as the 2016 election cycle was from the norm, in many ways the actions and attitudes of the national political press were entirely as…
Dec 25, 2016
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Aaron S. Veenstra
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Meowtivated reasoning
Every year or so, when a little news boomlet happens about a new study of the number of small animals killed by loose cats, I think about how his first…
Dec 24, 2016
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Aaron S. Veenstra
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The nucleus burning inside of the cell
Milwaukee has 323 voting wards that can be legitimately analyzed (three had zero votes in either election, and one had four votes in 2012 and five in…
Dec 22, 2016
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Aaron S. Veenstra
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Out in the city, into the sunshine
Waukesha has a lot to tell us about Clinton’s columns, as well. It and Madison — political polar opposites — are the only two of the ten cities where…
Dec 21, 2016
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Aaron S. Veenstra
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