The Classics

Choose one story from Chapter 9, "The Classics," (in America's Best Newspaper Writing) and post an agenda item that focuses on how your selected story illustrates a journalism concept that is important to your final article. What is that concept (define it in your own words and give an example) and quote a passage from your chosen work that pertains to the concept.

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» When Mars Attacks! from JacquelynJohns

From the Classics chapter in ABNW, I read "Mr. Welles and Mass Delusion" by Dorothy Thompson.  Thompson wrote the article in 1938, after a radio performance of Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds was mistaken by many listeners as... Read More

» Queens on the Diamond. from MitchellSteele

Like Vanessa was saying about the classics not fitting into the article, I too had the same problem. But I think the article by Red Smith, Miracle of Coogan's Bluff, kinda fits mine. I want to write my article with... Read More

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