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Observer: Reading list
The sememster is underway, here are some recent articles from the Washington Post that I’m linking for students to see and discuss. They address current issues in the news industry.
Shankar Vedantam – Why Fluff-Over-Substance Makes Perfect Evolutionary Sense – washingtonpost.com.
Dusty Horwitt – TMI: If Everyone’s Talking, Who Will Listen
Jonathan E. Kaplan – On Capitol Hill, Meeting Less of the Press
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I think the issue on the fluff piece is the irony between what people preach and what they actually practice.
For example, Palin supports abstinence-only sex education for teenagers and deplores the high rate of teen pregnancy in the United States. Her daughter ends up pregnant; certainly not Palin’s fault, but had her daughter been allowed to use contraceptive it probably wouldn’t be such a huge issue right now.
Larry Craig helped enact the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the US military. Yet he used pickup signals in a men’s restroom known for public sex.
It’s not so much the scandal that holds our interest, but the conflict in which it’s grounded.