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.

Sunday, November 01, 2020

Post-Election: Media Reckoning Needed

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As I write in late October of 2020, Joe Biden leads in all major polls, with the Real Clear Politics average putting him ahead nationally b...

Friday, October 16, 2020

Ten Bold Cover Tunes Part X: "Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream" Edition

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Last August 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse traveled from Illinois to Kenosha, WI. Considering himself part of a militia whose goal was to ...

Friday, October 02, 2020

Rethinking JFK's Edmund G. Ross

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In the entire history of the United States only three presidents have been impeached by the House of Representatives: Andrew Johnson in 1868...

Tuesday, September 01, 2020

New Podcast: Running on MT

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Matt King, one of my best students of all time, graduated from UW Oshkosh in 1991. After spending several years in K-12 teaching, in 1996 he...

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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Ten Bold Cover Tunes Part IX: "Covering" Spoken Words

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Previous posts in this Series: Ten Bold Cover Tunes Part I Ten Bold Cover Tunes Part II T en Bold Cover Tunes Part III: Guitar Hero Edition...

Saturday, August 01, 2020

Loving Your Enemies: The King Speech We Need Right Now

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In his short life (he was assassinated nine months shy of his 40th birthday), Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered and/or issued thousands of m...

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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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