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.