Little Rock These days it’s pretty clear that if you are going to run an activist nonprofit that might make waves someday and therefore unsettle conservative sailors on their good ship “Lollypop,” you simply have to increase the paranoia training for staff and leaders alike. The sting and scam model that the scurrilous and unprincipled James …
Month: April 2012
Is the Occupy Movement Dead, Alive, or Being Reborn?
Little Rock The Occupy Little Rock (OLR) encampment is close to celebrating its 6-month anniversary and still ensconced firmly in their space near the Interstate and not far from the Clinton Library. When my meetings are over today, I’ll drive by and see how they are making it. I was part of a panel …
What Does TV Say about Reality: Deconstructing HBO’s “Treme”
New Orleans The HBO show, Treme, another auteur urban tour from David Simon following the wildly acclaimed Wire, may not have found mass appeal out there in viewerlandia, but in New Orleans literally everyone has an opinion, all of which made for a fascinating evening with Tulane media and communications professor Vicki Mayer as part …