A few nice celebrity gossip images I found:
Richard Reid and Richard Wilkins - Hollywood Gossip
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The Today show at Bourke Street Mall for the Spring Racing Carnival and Melbourne Cup Day. Just missed Megan Gale, but I did catch Luke Mangan making a salad.
Live from Melbourne!
Thanks to the new David Jones American Express Card,TODAY will be live from Melbourne at the Bourke St Mall, outside of David Jones, from Friday October, 31 until Tuesday November 4.
Swing by to see some great performances from the likes of Axle Whitehead, Tim Finn and Chris Isaak. Also, catch a glimpse of supermodel Megan Gale and celebrity chef, Luke Mangan.
Dress to impress on Tuesday for the Oaks Day Best Dressed competition and you might just score yourself a 00 David Jones voucher as well as two tickets to the Lexus Marquee.
today.ninemsn.com.au/
Compare & Contrast: "People" & "Us" Magazines, The "Jake & Vienna From "The Bachelor" TV Series" Issue
Image by JoeInSouthernCA
One of my favorite undergraduate college courses was "Propaganda Survey & Analysis", a 300-level elective in the English Department. We used the term "propaganda" to describe any print or film/video medium (this was 1982, remember) designed to sway opinion & action, and deconstructed everything from Soviet-Era posters to ads for soda pop. It was both very enlightening, and *serious* fun.
One of the more eye-opening exercises was comparing and contrasting two vehicles - magazines, for example - that had the same audience & market to see how differences emerge even there, if in a more subtle way. In the class we compared Time & Newsweek; here we see the latest issues of People & Us, spotted by me in the checkout line at Ralph's last night.
See the exchange between Ken and me in the comments below. How would you describe the differences in the magazines' messages, and why?
My alma mater of Iowa State University is well-known for scholarly work in the analysis of "non-literary" literature and media, as well as technical rhetoric/composition/communication.
English Department website: engl.iastate.edu/
