Keep blogging!

Just a reminder that you should still be adding to your blogs. The next blog grade will be on posts made through Sunday, November 8.

I'm surprised no one has written about the "Balloon Boy" story that's been dominating the media (or as one of my friends said, Shouldn't we start calling him "Attic Boy"?) Isn't this just a perfect example of a news cycle that promotes non-news? Why did the news outlets cover it intially? How is it that this story got so big, and why are we still talking about it? What else aren't we paying attention to while we keep looking into the strangeness of the Heene Family?

I'm listening to a Talk of the Nation segment on media hoaxes right now, addressing some of these very issues.