Monday News 1/31

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Egypt and more
Why China blocks the word Egypt

Here is some ethical fodder too from the Deadspace 2 campaign.

From Sociological Images

Monday News

1. Outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt Plans Stock Sell-Off

2. H&R Block & Wrigley Join GM & Taco Bell Suspending Ads On Racy MTV 'Skins': Is Subway Next?

3. And from a book review in the New York Times of Cinderella Ate My Daughter

 Yet the princess phase, at least in its current hyper-feminine and highly commercial form, is anything but natural, or so Peggy Orenstein argues in “Cinderella Ate My Daughter.” As she tells the story, in 2000 a Disney executive named Andy Mooney went to check out a “Disney on Ice” show and found himself “surrounded by little girls in princess costumes. Princess costumes that were — horrors! — homemade. How had such a massive branding opportunity been overlooked? The very next day he called together his team and they began working on what would become known in-house as ‘Princess.’ ” Mooney’s revelation yielded a bonanza for the company. There are now more than 26,000 Disney Princess items on the market; in 2009, Princess products generated sales of $4 billion.

 

Friday Fun and Assignment #1

A) Complete the Media Diet Survey
B) Sign up for google docs.  Just follow the presentation.  Assignment #1 is in the last slide


C) then a cool video

France: Outlawing Ana

Alisa Miller- TED Media Presentation

Mean World Times Assignment

Check out these examples of MeanWorld Times 2005 Edition.