This one is short and sweet; it is my ode to what is my favorite Halloween/Christmas story of all time: “The Nightmare of Christmas.”
To Jack and Sally—you are the love story of a lifetime. Your music and dancing and story and connection is beautiful and brilliant and bountiful.
To Tim Burton—thank you for your work and beautiful art. Thank you for the fear and happiness in the same story. Thank you for the phenomenal story of a lifetime.
Patrick is PhD student and graduate instructor in the SJMC. He comes from nearly a decade of teaching high school journalism and English, and a decade of being an adjunct professor in journalism and media studies at Marquette University (where he received both my bachelor's and master's degrees).
When it comes to research, he interested in the intersection of news literacy and ethics, particularly as they relate to journalism’s discussion of itself, newsroom decision-making of content, values, and how this is then used to train high school and collegiate-level journalists. He is tremendously interested in how the journalism industry has evolved the concepts of objectivity, bias, and truth telling as a result of both the Fake News presidency and the rise in disinformation and misinformation sharing. He also has cognate interests that include political communication, horror films, media and sex, and the coverage of major events in America's sexual health history.
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