Sample News Logs for Humanities 1: Reading the
News
Fall 2005
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Date: Sun, 05 Sep
2004 14:04:52 -0700
From: Gregory Minton
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Subject: Re: news
log
To: Jeff Groves
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Hello,
My 3 hours started
with 30 minutes of the Daily Show (Comedy Central, Friday evening), the only
source of completely objective, unbiased, and unentertaining news out
there. This episode had clips from
Arnold's speech at the GOP Convention, and I particularly enjoyed them playing
"4 MORE YEARS! 4 MORE YEARS!" over and over again (Dean loses his
presidential hopes for a moment of excitement, while Arnold yelling is a
positive thing for the Republicans). I
also did just over an hour of NPR (Friday's Morning Edition, streamed off of
their website). They recapped several
clips from Bush's acceptance speech for the official nomination, touched on
Kerry's response, the school situation in Russia, and the hurricane coming to
Florida. My personal favorite section
was "Va.'s response to the Convention" (I believe that was the title,
loosely quoted). They were talking to
people in a bar that happens to be about 2 minutes' walk from my house, so that
was extraordinarily exciting. I split
the remaining hour and half evenly between the USA Today and the International
Herald Tribune. Since the LA Times is
required, I skipped the front section of the USA Today but read the Money
section, the sports, the editorials, and the entertainment section. I also got sucked into their cover story
about a possible electoral tie, in which the House elects the president, and
the Senate elects the VP (Bush/Edwards administration?) I liked the IHT a lot so am going to sign up
for their email alerts; I read the editorials and main stories linked to from
their homepage. One of them was a
"Yes, Europe, Bush might actually win" note, and one of the main
stories was about an exhibit from the New York art museum visiting Berlin which
received accusations from several local papers of being an "imperialist
conspiracy."
Gregory Minton (gminton@hmc.edu)
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Date: Sun, 05 Sep
2004 20:14:35 -0700
From: Zach Lupei
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Subject: Zach
Lupei's Newslog
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The first show I
watched this week was The Daily Show. I actually watched three different
episodes this week. I watched their coverage of the Republican National
Convention. The spin that they put on the New York convention was definitely a
negative one. They mocked the party's lack of diversity and extreme WASPishness.
The Tuesday coverage focused on the fact that minority delegates were given a
great deal of camera time and even undue speaking opportunities. Jon Stewart
also pointed out that the highest black, G.O.P., elected official in America is
the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland. Wednesday's coverage centered around
Arnold's overly passionate keynote address. Because The Daily Show is
filmed at 5pm it's coverage is always a day late. Because of this, Bush's
speech was never discussed. Thursday night's show was mostly about the outburst
of Georgia's Democratic Senator on Hardball. It was one of the funniest moments
I have ever seen on TV. The senator told the host that he wished it were
"his generation" so that he could challenge the man to a duel. The show
had a great time mocking this endlessly.
Thursday night I
also watched President Bush's address and a little bit of the speech's leading
up to culmination of the convention. While I am not sure that it counts
strictly as news, there was some commentary interjected so I will count it and
hope you do as well….
Finally, I listened
to the webcast of "All Things Considered" on Sunday. The show talked
mostly about the recent hostage situation in Russia that killed more than 330
people, mostly children. I also learned more about Hurricane Frances, which is
being called the worst natural disaster in America. My favorite part of the
show was a review of a book in which the author told the stories he imagined
from the backs of penny postcards. He would collect these postcards at flea
markets and then create a story based on the small bit of text. The funniest
was about a railroad worker who didn't want to go on a hay-ride with a girl who
had a wooden leg, but ended up falling in love with her.