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Magazines, Newspapers, and the Media

The Media:
Use the following links to become informed about the issues that are of importance in today's world.  Use the facts about these issues to support a personal stance in a timed "Agree or Disagree" essay examination.

Arts and Letters Daily  This is an excellent site to learn about topics that concern today's world.  Here you will find essays, criticism, ideas, culture, history, music, art, disputes, and gossip--more than enough material to learn how the educated express their views in articulate ways.

C-SPAN Live 

FedNet

Free Speech TV

PBS Frontline

Live Daily:  New York Times Editorials
Do you agree with The New York Times Editors and contributors?  Become educated on today's issues, then practice good argument by joining the discussions online.

World Link TV 

Magazine and Journals:
American Prospect
Art News           Arts Journal
Atlantic Monthly
Boston Phoenix
Columbia Journalism Review
Cortland Review
Daedalus- Susan Sontag, "An Argument about Beauty"
Guardian Unlimited - Book News
Moby Lives
Mother Jones
Ms. Magazine
The Nation 

  National Review
The New Republic
New Statesman 
Newsweek
The New Yorker
"Grandfather Knows Best" by Calvin Trillin
"Why New York is Better than San Francisco" by Trillin
"Phillis Wleatley In Trial" by Henry Louis Gates , Jr.
"Glorious Food" by Francine du Plessix Gray
New York Review of Books
"Fixed Opinions, or The Hinge of History" By Joan Didion
"Thus Spake Henry" By Russell Baker
Partisan Review Reason 
The Scream Online 
The Spectator 
Time
U.S. News & World Report 
USA Today
Washington Monthly 

Newspapers
Assignment:  The following newspapers can be read for pleasure, for news , and as texts for  thousands of assignments.  Just search each newspaper for ideas.  They are already there!
Newspapers.com  A lengthy list of newspapers can be found here.   The Top Ten Newspapers Online is updated on a weekly basis, and posted every Friday at 5:00 p.m. US Central Time. Newspaper links are listed in order of most visited to least visited from Newspapers Online!.   Here is the list for June 2000.  They are listed in order of most visited to least visited from Newspapers Online!. 
THE ATLANTAJOURNAL
NEW YORK TIMES
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
LOS ANGELES TIMES
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
THE WASHINGTON POST
BALTIMORE SUN
THE BOSTON GLOBE
NEW YORK POST
MIAMI HERALD


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