Notes about and homework for Wednesday (9/28), Friday (9/30), and Monday (10/3)

For Wednesday (9/28), please read the following articles (in addition to the news):

Rachel Smolkin, "Judgment Calls," American Journalism Review

Seymour M. Hersh, "Torture at Abu Ghraib," New Yorker

Dana Priest and Anne Hull, "Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility," Washington Post 

 

 

There is no class Friday (9/30); I am traveling.

 

 

For Monday (10/3), please read the following instead of the articles listed on the syllabus:

Bill Keller, “Traditional News Outlets — Living Among the Guerrillas,” New York Times, 2011.

Daniel Okrent, “THE PUBLIC EDITOR; Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?,” New York Times, 2004.

Larissa Macfarquhar, “The deflationist: How Paul Krugman found politics,” New Yorker, 2011.

Also, as usual, read Noonan, Krugman, Brooks, Blow, and the rest of the assigned news for Monday.

 

Monday's and Wednesday's NEW homework

For Monday, please read the following instead of Hunter Thompson:

James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, “Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts,” New York Times 

Eric Boehlert, "The Day the Bloggers Won," Salon

Jonathan Bernstien, "Which Network asks the Best Presidential Debate Questions?" Salon

Here is Peggy Noonan's column. In addition to reading Noonan, please read Krugman, Brooks, Blow, and the rest of the assigned news for Monday.

 

For Wednesday, please read the following articles (in addition to the news):

Rachel Smolkin, "Judgment Calls," American Journalism Review

Seymour M. Hersh, "Torture at Abu Ghraib," New Yorker

Dana Priest and Anne Hull, "Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility," Washington Post 

Wednesday's homework

Here are four articles for you to read by Wednesday.  All from today’s Times.

1. An op-ed by Bill Keller, the former executive editor of the Times, talking about Obama and how the president allowed others to set the narrative for him. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/opinion/filling-in-the-blanks.html?ref=opinion
2. An article about how Pennsylvania Republicans are trying to divide the electoral map.  Sound familiar? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/us/politics/pennsylvania-republicans-weigh-electoral-vote-changes.html?ref=politics
3. A good profile of Rick Perry’s hometown, Paint Creek, Texas. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/us/politics/paint-creek-tex-remembers-rick-perry.html?ref=politics
4. A profile about Romney’s chief strategist, Stuart Stevens. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/us/politics/stuart-stevens-redefining-romneys-presidential-run.html?hp
5. Also, make sure you read today’s Krugman and tomorrow’s Brooks, as well as the rest of the news.

Take care,

David

Noonan

Here is today's column by Noonan: http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html or here

Tickets for the New Hampshire debate

If you're a New Hampshire resident, you can join the lottery for a debate ticket.  Go here.

The rest of will get into the "Watch Party," which will be lots of fun and will give us an opportunity to meet some of the candidates.

A Moroccan Driver and the Great Experiment

Here is an op-ed I wrote ten years ago following the September 11 attaks. I thought you might find it interesting. It ran in the Burlington Free Press and it's called "A Moroccan Driver and the Great Experiment."

Noonan's column

I just checked Noonan's column and its available in full text here.

Krugman's and Brooks's columns are up, too.
See you tomorrow in class...

Insider Baseball

Here's the homework for Friday, a 1988 article by Joan Didion, one of the great journalists of our time.  The article is called "Insider Baseball" and it is here.

PS Here's Kurtis Blow singing "The Breaks." This is not a homework assignment.  Kurtis Blow does NOT write for the Times.  As I mentioned in class today, I imagine that both Kurtis Blow and Charles Blow would be horrified by my mistake.

Peggy Noonan, Charles Blow, and Bernie Sanders

Here, again, is the link to Peggy Noonan's column

Here is the link to Charles Blow

Here is information about the Sanders event.  It will take place on Monday at noon and will run until 3 p.m. downtown.  We'll leave at noon from Bergeron.

Links

Perhaps you'll want to bookmark this page.  Here are set links to various news sites:

Media and American Politics:  David’s news page

Check daily:

Read the New York Times in general

Focus on the politics section

Check out the top  read, emailed, and blogged stories of the last three days.  Read the top one from each category (sometimes there will be some overlap).

Read the most blogged story from the past week

Read the most blogged story from the past month

Monday: Krugman

Tuesday: Brooks

Friday: Brooks, Krugman, and Peggy Noonan (Wall Street Journal)

Saturday: Blow

Tuesday and Saturday:

Browse the BBC’s U.S. and Canada page

Browse The Note

Browse Moveon.org

Browse Real Clear Politics

Browse Intrade