No class meeting today! INSTEAD: Debate tonight! It starts at 7pm. It should last approx 1.5 hours, but you don't have to watch the entire thing. Please try to watch as much as you can! Should be some interesting TV!
Watch it on cable or a TV service that carries the following channels: CNN, Fox News, CBS, ABC, C-SPAN, NBC and MSNBC.
C-Span's Live Stream on YouTube is a good internet based option.
The New York Times Live Stream includes commentary and fact-checking with NYT reporters.
If you miss it, it will definitely be available to go back and watch tomorrow on YouTube.
Please look at the debate through the lenses of rhetoric and ideology that we have been studying. HONORS crew, don't forget that your first essay will be to declare a winner of one of the 4 debates happening in the next month. This one is certainly fair game!
Also attached here is a little historical look at the Nixon/Kennedy debate that we talked about in class. Many presidential historians see it as a turning point in the way we elect candidates. Here we are 60 years later and we have a TV personality as a president, just sayin'....