For Monday, be prepared to continue our discussion on 'Where Trouble Comes' and on the new O'Brien stories (one standard length, three very short), found here. There will be a quiz, and you'll be able to use the texts, so bring them.
The topics have not vastly improved since the last go around, and so I urge most of you to radically rethink them and (this is particularly important) try to divorce them from the topics you've been discussing (this can be especially helpful if you are tired of thinking about your subject). Try for more generalized thinking about representation, media, newspapers and television--how are stories represented when they are? What are the different ways that they are represented in different media? Are any forms of media (films, novels, stories), likely to be more 'authentic' than others?
For Monday, then, post here a thesis along these lines, one which your previous thinking might at most play no more than the role of evidence, but wouldn't be the topic itself. (That is, you might use the post's portrayal of the Bell shooting as an example in a larger investigation into newspapers versus television versus tv movie versions of racially charged events).
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