Remember Me?
Something happened on my way to blog: life. I've been in the midst of a crazy deadline that, fortunately, I will meet, but the work has taken me away from blogging at a very critical time. I'll be back with a posting next week and the following week. In November, I'll start blogging a few times a week.
In the meantime, here are a couple of items for consideration. For some reason I find myself in front of Crossfire a few times a week. About that time of day, I throw myself on the couch after teaching back-to-back classes. The main choices are Oprah or Judy Woodruff on CNN. Once I choose the latter, I don't have much energy left to hit the remote once Woodruff's political news leads into Crossfire. I was grateful for this inertia last week when Jon Stewart appeared on the show. We all know Stewart is smart and one of the more astute political observers out there, so I'll dispense with all that leadup. The headline is that he reprimanded Paul Belaga and Tucker Carlson for "hurting America." Their show, he told them, could be so much more--they could actually create dialogue instead of hosting a screaming match. Give Stewart a lot of credit for showing up and standing by some of the criticism he has made about the show when the hosts weren't in the room. He showed up and told it to them straight. Belaga and Carlson were nervous; they had to know they were bested on every front. Catch a replay of the encounter at contemporaryinsanity. Stories are at mediamatters.org and dailykos, the popular liberal blog.
No surprise that the New York Times endorsed John Kerry for President (sign-in required). The students in my Editorial Writing class at CCSU start deliberations for their endorsements this week. I'm looking forward to listening to and reading their views. At some point, the class ( this blog) will have to take up the issues raised by the early endorsements we have seen and the broader question of whether endorsements can really be separated from news coverage--or at least how readers perceive news coverage.
Lots to talk about.
V
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