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Roger Ebert's Journal: Archives
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/06/the_oreilly_procedure.html

Roger Ebert discusses Bill O'Reily
Glenn Beck
The same techniques were used during the late 1930s to study another prominent voice in a war-era, Father Charles Coughlin. His sermons evolved into a darker message of anti-Semitism and fascism, and he became a defender of Hitler and Mussolini. In this study, O'Reilly is a heavier and less-nuanced user of the propaganda devices than Coughlin. * Name calling -- giving something a bad label to make the audience reject it without examining the evidence; * Glittering generalities -- the opposite of name calling; * Card stacking -- the selective use of facts and half-truths; * Bandwagon -- appeals to the desire, common to most of us, to follow the crowd; * Plain folks -- an attempt to convince an audience that they, and their ideas, are "of the people"; * Transfer -- carries over the authority, sanction and prestige of something we respect or dispute to something the speaker would want us to accept; and * Testimonials --
The best films of 2009 - Roger Ebert's Journal
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/12/the_best_films_of_2009.html
Since Moses brought the tablets down from the mountain, lists have come in tens, not that we couldn't have done with several more commandments. Who says a year has Ten Best Films, anyway? Nobody but readers, editors, and most other movie critics. There was hell to pay last year when I published my list of Twenty Best. You'd have thought I belched at a funeral. So this year I have devoutly limited myself to exactly ten films.
Las mejores películas del 2009 para el critico Roger Ebert http://bit.ly/7W4sNp [from http://twitter.com/inti/statuses/6861084361]
Nil by mouth - Roger Ebert's Journal
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/01/nil_by_mouth.html
Roger Ebert's poignant piece on what he misses about eating, now that he no longer can.
": Isn't it sad to be unable eat or drink? Not as sad as you might imagine. I save an enormous amount of time. I have control of my weight. Everything agrees with me. And so on. What I miss is the society. Lunch and dinner are the two occasions when we most easily meet with friends and family. They're the first way we experience places far from home. Where we sit to regard the passing parade. How we learn indirectly of other cultures. When we feel good together. Meals are when we get a lot of our talking done -- probably most of our recreational talking. That's what I miss."
Roger Ebert talks about no longer being able to eat, drink, or speak.
Print Roger Ebert: The Essential Man
http://www.esquire.com/print-this/roger-ebert-0310
Roger Ebert Cancer Battle - Roger Ebert Interview - Esquire
http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310
It has been nearly four years since Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak. Now television's most famous movie critic is rarely seen and never heard, but his words have never stopped.
Roger Ebert's Journal: Archives
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/04/how_i_believe_in_g.html
Catholicism made me a humanist before I knew the word. When people rail against "secular humanism," I want to ask them if humanism itself would be okay with them. Over the high school years, my belief in the likelihood of a God continued to lessen. I kept this to myself. I never discussed it with my parents. My father in any event was a non-practicing Lutheran, until a death bed conversion which rather disappointed me. I'm sure he agreed to it for my mother's sake.
Remembering Gene - Roger Ebert's Journal
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/02/i_remember_gene.html
Gene died ten years ago on February 20, 1999. He is in my mind almost every day. I don't want to rehearse the old stories about how we had a love/hate relationship, and how we dealt with television, and how we were both so scared the first time we went on Johnny Carson that, backstage, we couldn't think of the name of a single movie, although that story is absolutely true. Those stories have been told. I want to write about our friendship. The public image was that we were in a state of permanent feud, but nothing we felt had anything to do with image. We both knew the buttons to push on the other one, and we both made little effort to hide our feelings, warm or cold. In 1977 we were on a talk show with Buddy Rogers, once Mary Pickford's husband, and he said, "You guys have a sibling rivalry, but you both think you're the older brother."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzsmNHrZVeY
Gene Siskel and I were like tuning forks. Strike one, and the other would pick up the same frequency. When we were in a group together, we were always intensely aware of one another. Sometimes this took the form of camaraderie, sometimes shared opinions, sometimes hostility. But we were aware. If something happened that we both thought was funny but weren't supposed to, God help us if one caught the other's eye. We almost always thought the same things were funny. That may be the best sign of intellectual communion.
Roger remembers Gene Siskel; a moving article.
Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! - Roger Ebert's Journal
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/06/tweet_tweet_tweet.html
"I like the internet, but I don't want to become its love slave." Well said, @ebertchicago http://cwu.me/dnrbvv (thx for @ cx, @digiphile) [from http://twitter.com/MacDivaONA/statuses/16081979732]
Roger Ebert-"I vowed I would never become a Twit. I have been humbled...": http://bit.ly/ddJQyE /via @SocialMedia411
RT @SocialMedia411: Roger Ebert - "I vowed I would never become a Twit. I have been humbled...": http://bit.ly/ddJQyE ★★★
Everyone could learn a thing or two from Roger Ebert: http://bit.ly/ddJQyE
RT @florencedesruol: @Kriisiis tu as lu son billet sur l'addiction je l'avais tweeté il y a qq temps ? http://is.gd/cXxfC
Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! by @ebertchicago http://spncr.me/b7 (awesome)
"I vowed I would never become a Twit. Now I have Tweeted nearly 10,000 Tweets. I said Twitter represented the end of civilization. It now represents a part of the civilization I live in. I said it was impossible to think of great writing in terms of 140 characters. I have been humbled by a mother of three in New Delhi. I said I feared I would become addicted. I was correct." Roger Ebert discusses the benefits of Twitter.
Roger Ebert (@ebertchicago) on how he became a convert to #twitter http://bit.ly/bWReQo #eventprofs