Citytv serves up tasty CreComm PR blogs for breakfast

There's nothing better than waking up in the morning, turning on the TV, and seeing the PR class that you would be teaching if it wasn't a day off.

But I was trying to forget on Remembrance Day. Guffaw!

This morning, Citytv served up Red River College CreComm/PR blogs on Breakfast Television - Citytv viewers: check out my blog roll on the right side of this page to read them for yourself.

So far, "reviews are mixed." Ha, ha! Love that Chase getting media coverage by NOT having an opinion, which is - of course - an opinion. Genius!

A big thanks to CreComm grad Megan Batchelor for coming in to interview us for her report. As always, it's great to get student work shown on TV - a shout out to the great-lookin' folks in class three and their blogs!

A few observations:

1. That glowing celestial orb in the report is my head. I'm going to start going with powder instead of polish.

2. I'm not crazy about the intro, the journalism construction that allows the anchor to say, "Bloggers feel..." one way and "others feel..." another way. Who are these "others?" I challenge the others to a duel after school!

3. Also in the intro: the idea that bloggers spread unfounded and/or anonymous rumors. Unlike the traditional media? Or grannies talking to each other on the phone, for that matter?

4. I wouldn't so much say that our blogs are for "networking" - that's really a Facebook thing. Our blogs are to give every writer his or her God-given right to have a media outlet, to find out how it works with - or against - traditional media, and to simply practice writing.

I, and Stephen King, believe that a great writer is someone who writes for 30 minutes a day because he or she needs to do it. The Internet allows us to not only do that, but to do it in front of a worldwide audience. Whatta concept!

5. It's true that these are journalism students in the report, but they're also PR, media production, radio, TV, creative writing, and advertising students.

It's mastering all of these things and learning how they work together that will make our students valuable to employers and productive citizens now and when they graduate.

To isolate blogging to one thing is to deny it the power and richness of the medium, especially when combined with Facebook, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, Flickr, a million other websites, a smartphone, grit, gumption, and determination.