Someone ELSE we know published an oped!!

And it has an optimistic ending.

Someone ELSE we know published an oped!

It’s about what we think of when we think of “Hartford locals.”

Do you like anonymous online comments?

Should they be an accepted part of the public sphere?  Many news sources are rethinking them.

An interview with a soldier about that Wikileaks video

He’s not an ordinary soldier–he came home and joined Iraq Veterans Against the War.

The video we were talking about in class.

Turns out there’s a story on it on the front page of today’s NYTimes–it’s about an incident that happened in 2007.  What do you think of Wikileaks as a source of news that Reuters and other established news sources can’t get?

The wars have become like white noise in our culture.

I liked this oped in the NYTimes today by Bob Herbert.

For Monday

1.  Work on your draft of your opinion essay, and bring an in-process draft, much changed from the one I already read, for work in groups.  Your FINAL version of this essay is due on Wednesday the 7th.

2.  Read McKee, chapter 4, and blog about it.

3. Blog about anything else, and comment on others’ blogs.