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  Re: Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI’s Experiment in Regional Educational Television

  Hi Allison, Sorry to be a

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  Friday, February 29, 2008 — 12:53 am

  questions about MPATI and its reception: 1) Was this part of the preparation for a possible nuclear attack-- ... why didn't MPATI consider that as a possibility (or why did MPATI dismiss it)? Again, this seems ... possibilities for television (and any broadcast medium). Thanks so much for sharing what you know about this!! ...
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  Re: Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI’s Experiment in Regional Educational Television

  Thanks, Allison, for this

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  Mark Williams Dartmouth College

  Thursday, February 28, 2008 — 5:05 pm

  was only possible for radio at the time; it would be years before this would be available for ...
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  Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI’s Experiment in Regional Educational Television

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  Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

  February 28, 2008

  8 comments

  would supplement—and possibly displace--local ETV stations. In the process, they would substitute ...
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  Re: Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

  ... and I'm back. The more

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  Thursday, February 28, 2008 — 4:48 am

  spot-on. It's possible that this dynamic may be even more accentuated at the various minor-league or ...
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  Re: Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

  I'm interested in the issues

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  Victoria E. Johnson University of California - Irvine

  Wednesday, February 27, 2008 — 8:52 pm

  I'm interested in the issues raised regarding race and the problematic notion of "authenticity." Though not the realm of baseball Doug is focusing on, the MLB Minor Leagues have experienced a resurgence of late, in part, by moving into down ...
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  Re: Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

  Hi Mark, Thanks for the

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  Wednesday, February 27, 2008 — 6:59 pm

  public funds. It's located within the city limits, on the northeastern side of the city, near ...
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  Re: Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

  Doug, I think you've hit

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  Mark Williams Dartmouth College

  Wednesday, February 27, 2008 — 6:28 pm

  (Do I have that right?) No bowling alone for this group! [possibly obscure reference to Robert ...
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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  February 27, 2008

  14 comments

  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be 1950s amateurs Baseball branding discourse documentaries fandom Ken Burns Madiso Mallards marketing pro-am promos regionalism sports Curator's Note Inning Seven of Ken Burns’ “Baseball” argues that major socioe ...
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  Burgundy Histories? WEWS-TV “Catch 5!” 1970s promo

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  Mark Williams Dartmouth College

  February 26, 2008

  8 comments

  particular fosters an opening of reading possibilities, I want to encourage more possibilities than camp ... Burgundy histories?- that deploy camp to new advantage. Or might such projects conflict with a possible ...
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  Re: Carl Sagan’s Contact

  I'm intrigued by the way

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  Jeremy Butler University of Alabama

  Thursday, February 21, 2008 — 3:49 am

  I'm intrigued by the way that Dan has recast the notion of guilt to include shame for taking pleasure in the mediocre, for a guilty pleasure that most would think is "pleasure sans guilt." In CONTACT, we have a film that garnered mostly pos ...

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