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, December 01, 2024

Campaign '24: Ten Epic Media Fails

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In the aftermath of Kamala Harris' stunning loss in this year's presidential election, Democrat leaning politicians and pundits offe...

Friday, November 01, 2024

The Electoral College Again

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I'm writing this less than a week before the November elections. For the first time in my life, the phrase "the most consequential ...

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Lewis Hine's Lesson For Today's Media

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Lewis Hine, a brilliant photographer whose pictures exposed the crime of child labor in the United States in the early 1900s, was born in ...

Sunday, September 01, 2024

The How and Why of "Weird"

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I n July Joe Biden announced his decision to step aside and endorse Kamala Harris for the presidency. Given that the announcement came so cl...

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

What's A Vice-President To Do? On Harris, Cheney, and Agnew

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After Kamala Harris became the de facto Democratic Party nominee for President, the Trump Republicans didn't waste any time launching s...

Friday, July 19, 2024

Ten Bold Cover Tunes, Part XIV: Summertime Blues Edition

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As Robert Plant might say, it's been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time since I've d...

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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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