Within the Context of No Context

Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 1 — The Context of No-Context

By Hank Stuever | October 3, 2012 |

George W.S. Trow’s long essay about American culture and the irreversible effects of television on the national psyche, Within the Context of No-Context, was first published in the New Yorker’s Nov. 17, 1980, issue. It took up nearly the whole magazine. It changed people — and also irritated many. It still has the effect of…

Montana!

By Hank Stuever | August 27, 2012 |

Let me bring you up to speed and then slow it way down: I’ve left D.C. behind for the next four months and driven 2,500 miles to beautiful Missoula, Mont., to be the 2012 T. Anthony Pollner Professor at the University of Montana’s excellent School of Journalism. The professorship is the gift of the Pollner…