Pivotal Broadcasters

We talked today about the eloquence of CBS correspondent Edward R. Murrow, in his radio dispatches in the early 1940s from London, which were filled with the ambient sounds of bombings and air raid sirens. We also discussed CBS "Evening News" Anchor Walter Cronkite's deft handling of news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy --and of the then-unheard-of round-the-clock coverage the network gave the story. I wanted to give you links to re-visit some of this sound and footage at your leisure:

Edward R. Murrow in London, from the Internet Archive

Walter Cronkite on the Kennedy assassination:

How Do You Get Your News?

How do you get your news each day? Be specific, please, with news sites/stations/papers you frequent, and/or media types. Do you find news on Facebook or other social media first? On TV news shows or satire shows? On newspapers or websites?

Feel free to write your answer as a well-worded few paragraphs that are comments to this post.

Welcome Summer 2011 Class!

Class, this site will be used throughout this summer journalism course to post ideas, questions and comments about the media.

I'll expect each of you to start at least one thread of discussion pertaining to the media during the next three weeks-- and to comment on others' threads. I'm not looking for wild rants; I'm looking for reasoned analysis, buttressed by facts, attribution and links to primary sources.

Remember that the world can see this site, but only the class can comment to it.

Please use professional standards and courtesies in your comments: No personal attacks on people, please. No hate comments or profanity. And try to follow rules of grammar and style.

Also: Please remember that your mini profiles don't belong in this post creation area; they should be published as profiles.

Looking forward to an interesting class!