Tony Palmeri's Media Rants

Welcome To Tony Palmeri's Media Rants! I am a professor of Communication Studies at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. I use this blog to try to promote critical thinking about mainstream media, establishment politics, and popular culture.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

I'll be on Friday's "Week in Review"

I'll be on Friday's WPR Week in Review tomorrow (June 25) opposite former WI state senator and Lieutenant Governor Margaret Farrow ...

Friday, June 04, 2010

Jim Joyce's Lessons For Politicians

By now everyone knows that umpire Jim Joyce's blown call cost the Tigers' Armando Galarraga a perfect game. Umpire Joyce's recog...

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Media Rants: Justice Stevens' Uneven First Amendment Legacy

Update July 17, 2019: Y esterday Justice John Paul Stevens passed away at the age of 99. I wrote this piece in June of 2010, shortly after...

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Amen

From Bob Herbert's latest column on the BP disaster: "The U.S. will never get its act together until we develop the courage and t...

Friday, May 28, 2010

Colin Crowley: Humanitarian Videographer From Oshkosh

Received a wonderful email yesterday from Colin Crowley. I first met Colin around 2004, when I was running for state assembly and he was doi...

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Rooting For Clegg and the Lib Dems, Part II

Even though the flawed plurality voting system resulted in his Liberal Democrats actually losing seats in the recent UK elections, Nick Cleg...

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

CSI

That stands for "Citizen Statement Irony." At last night's Common Council meeting, for the first time the Council allowed citi...

Thursday, May 06, 2010

Rooting for Clegg and the Lib Dems

UK citizens go to the polls today, and have an opportunity to send a loud message that could be heard across the Atlantic. Dominated for gen...

Saturday, May 01, 2010

Media Rants: Health Care, Dumbassification, and the Fairness Doctrine

Health Care, Dumbassification, and the Fairness Doctrine Media Rants By Tony Palmeri From the May 2010 edition of The SCENE Did you catch a...

Sunday, April 25, 2010

City Manager Evaluation Documents

Councilor Jessica King will serve as Deputy Mayor (DM) this year on the Oshkosh Common Council. The major responsibility of that position is...

Friday, April 23, 2010

Maybe The Pittsburgh Pirates Will Win World Series This Year

Having a " My Two Cents moment " (i.e. Mr. Krause frequently writes about sports). Imagine being on the Pittsburgh Pirates roster ...

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Friday Week in Review

I'll be on WPR's Week in Review on Friday with host Joy Cardin and conservative blogger Dave Blaska . You can join the conversation...

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Media Rants: Earth Day at 40

Earth Day At 40 By Tony Palmeri On April 22 Earth Day , the brainchild and legacy of the late Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson , celebra...

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

TIF Standards

Due to a bout with pneumonia, I missed the city council meeting last night. Former councilor Kevin McGee wrote a great commentary for the N...

Monday, March 15, 2010

New Politics Site

Launched by Milwaukee Magazin e, and called MilwaukeeNewsBuzz . Seems like a clearinghouse for mainstream reporting and commentary from arou...

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Sunshine Week 2010: March 14-20

A Scripps poll conducted for Sunshine Week shows that the majority of Americans do not believe that the federal government has become more ...

Thursday, March 04, 2010

UW Madison Student Rips Feingold For Oshkosh Corp. Support

I don't agree with everything that UW Madison student Steve Horn says in this op-ed piece about Senator Feingold's support for Oshk...

Sunday, February 28, 2010

March Media Rant: Jo Egelhoff Reviews the Post-Crescent

Last month at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA), the Appleton Post-Crescent (PC) was named the state's ...

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Sunlight and the Health Care Summit

Kudos to the Sunlight Foundation for their brilliant live coverage of today's White House Health Care Summit. As each wealthy special i...

Thursday, February 18, 2010

I'll be on Week in Review Tomorrow

AnnAlthouse and I will be on Wisconsin Public Radio's "Week in Review" tomorrow from 8-9 a.m. Questions/comments can be calle...

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About Me

tony palmeri: I teach Communication Studies (First Amendment, Classical Rhetoric, Civic Engagement, Rhetoric of Rock Music) at UW Oshkosh. Served two terms on Oshkosh City Council. Originally from Brooklyn, NY.

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