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What happened in the news this week? You haven't been commenting much to this post, so rather than going from my own thoughts, I'm leaving it entirely up to you.

What was worth knowing this week?

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Here's what I've been reading about, in part:
- Obama's nobel
- verdict in Astor case
- vote to expand the definition of federal hate crimes to include gender and sexual orientation
- health care bill and national deficit
- Wisconsin couple sentenced in nationally watched case on religion and medical treatment for kids

How 'bout you?

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What's in the news this week:
- claims of bias in an Olympic decision
- a senator and potential ethics violations
- a celebrity admits workplace dalliances and a resulting extortion case
- unemployment rate nears 10 percent
- Iran agrees to send its enriched uranium to another superpower

What can you add to the list via comments?

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What's on your mind and in the news this week?
- Iran and a nuclear revelation
- G20 summit
- troop levels in Afghanistan
- arrests in suspected terror bombing plots
- John Edwards and the paternity game
What else should we be watching to stay informed?

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So what happened this week that may appear on the quiz? I'll start you thinking, and you add other items via comments.

- anniversary of Wall Street meltdown
- changes in missile defense plans
- Badgers win
- arrest in the death of Yale graduate student
- Patrick Swayze dies
- premiere of "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" (the biggest news of the week in the Culver household)

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Welcome to the blog, our newest batch of journalism majors. Each week, I post to the "KC News Meeting" tag on this blog a short list of things that have made the news during this week. This should prompt you to make sure you've prepared for the current events quizzes. But my lists aren't comprehensive or exhaustive. So I want you to post comments to add news items you think are important. I try to draw quiz questions from a combination of my posts and your comments (but any major themes, people or action could be fodder for a question, so don't limit your news diet to just these posts).

So far this week, I'm reading about:
- President Obama's health care speech to Congress
- key players in the political debate over health care
- "You lie!" (if you don't know what that refers to, you need to be digesting more daily)
- female evening news anchor at ABC
- H1N1 and vaccine developments
- former Taiwanese leader sentenced
- concerns about Afghan elections
- Ellen Degeneres joins "American Idol"
- Presidential message to schoolchildren

Use the comments function to to add your ideas on what's brewing currently.

KC News Meeting

I've been reading about some of the following things this week. But please remember this posting is not exhaustive. Some of you are relying too much on these notes to understand what's going on in your world. Remember, a daily diet of news is critical to participating as a citizen, a worker, a consumer. News isn't important because "KC's News Meeting" says it is.
Here's what I've been learning about. Use comments to add your own ideas.
- Madison tuition initiative
- NCAA tournament
- AIG bonuses
- Detroit bailouts
- plan for Afghanistan
- stock market rallies
- who is Tim Geithner and what does he want to do for us?
- violence in Mexico

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Here are some developments I followed during the week. Add yours via comments:
- football players in boating accident
- unemployment increases
- possible plea deal in Madoff case
- AIG needing more help
- market hits 12-year low
- efforts to help homeowners in mortgage trouble
- court arguments over California gay marriage ban
- Obama administration and stem cells

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What's on your radar this week? Since I haven't seen all that many comments in past weeks, I'm going to withhold my list of what seems to be percolating in the news and let you define it. Post comments with your ideas or the quiz questions could end up being a complete surprise.

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Here's what I've been paying attention to this week. Add your ideas and issues via comments. Quiz questions come from mine or yours, but at times big news hits and I add it to the quiz even when it's not here.
- stimulus plan
- A-Rod and 'roids
- TARP
- second commerce secretary nominee withdraws
- plane crash in New York
- octuplet mom talks to Ann Curry (gak)
- peanut recall
- grilling CEOs on Capitol Hill
- wild fires in Australia
- Burris and Blago - the saga continues

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Here are some stories I've been following this week. Add yours to the comments, so we're all thinking about the quiz:
- Tom Daschle withdraws as nominee
- executive compensation concerns
- Supreme Court Justice undergoes surgery
- Michael Phelps and the bong hit heard 'round the world
- economy contracts but not as much as others feared
- digital TV conversion delayed
- Madoff hearings
- abortion clinic in Madison
- negotiating the stimulus package
- peanut recall

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Welcome to a brand new crop of 202ers. Each week, I post to the "KC News Meeting" tag on this blog a short list of things that have made the news during this week. This should prompt you to make sure you've prepared for the current events quizzes. But my lists aren't comprehensive or exhaustive. So I want you to post comments to add news items you think are important. I try to draw quiz questions from a combination of my posts and your comments.
So what's been happening:
- one word: Blagojevich
- economic stimulus package
- John Updike dies
- administration appointments, including Timothy Geithner for Treasury
- Pfizer pharmaceutical may be getting much bigger
- Gov. Jim Doyle covers the state budget woes
- Microsoft cuts jobs
- Obama makes a move on auto emissions
- massive Wall Street bonuses look bad, very very bad
- upcoming elections in Iraq

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Sorry for the delay in all my posts this week. I couldn't get on until just now. What's in the news this week?
- senator convicted
- little band named Wilco plays the Union
- Canadians pranking Palin
- voter registration suit thrown out in Wisconsin
- seems to be some kind of election coming up perhaps?

What are you reading about?

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In the news this week:
- international coordinated rate cut
- Detroit auto industry
- Palin investigation results
- power-sharing in Zimbabwe
- UW band
What are you reading about?

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What are you thinking about in the news this week:
- $700 billion bailout ... what does it *actually* do?
- McCain debate proposal
- Couric and Palin
- U.S. actions in Pakistan
- Palin e-mail hacking
- Ehud Olmert steps down
- Letterman has fit of pique
- trial begins for Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens

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Hot topics in the news this week. Here's what I've been reading and hearing a lot about. Add your ideas via comments.
- AIG bailout
- Lehman lack-of-bailout
- money market guarantees
- deceptive ad accusations in prez campaign
- train crash in LA
- McCain/Palin visit Wisconsin
- Brewers' losses
- embassy bombing in Yemen
- will tainted Chinese milk lead to recall?
- Dane County smoking ban

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Each week in J202, we have a current events section on the quiz. To stimulate your reading and thinking about what is going on in your world, I'll post a few items of interest to this blog. I invite you to comment on these posts, known as "KC's News Meeting," and add items that you read in the news. While I can't promise every quiz question will come from these posts and comments, they're a great place to start getting yourself into the news. So read up and comment (and remember, if I see more than 105 comments to all my blog posts in a week, everyone's quiz score for that week goes up a point).

Here's some of what I've been interested in this week:
- financial crisis at giant Lehman Brothers firm
- candidates and earmarks
- big, fat collider smashing teeny, tiny particles
- a stroke in North Korea
- conflict between Russia and Georgia
- lipstick, pigs and a "Swift Boat" accusation

What are you reading about? Post a comment.

Are You Informed?

This piece is worth a read:

http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=QYw8fVKV9Vv4V6kWySfwnJynqhrkzfSg

I am routinely troubled by our failure in getting and keeping ourselves informed. A student asked me a few weeks ago what specific steps she could take to improve her base of knowledge. Our exchange went roughly like this:

What is the home page that opens when your launch your primary Web browser?
Facebook.
Change it to Google News, New York Times or Washington Post. You can still visit Facebook, but you'll see key news every time you launch.

Do you subscribe to a print publication, either newspaper or magazine?
No.
Pick one. I get a local and national. But I'm about to subscribe to a magazine called "The Week" that serves as a digest of key issues worth knowing.

Do you ever talk about current issues with friends?
Not really.
Try once a day to have a conversation with someone about something you read.

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What's in the news this week? I'll goose a limited list, but you do the rest. Last quiz ... but that doesn't mean you can stop reading/listening/watching.
- China and Tibet
- mortgage crisis and bailouts
- sniper fire in Bosnia
- the 4,000 mark in Iraq
- two candidates, a pastor and speeches on race

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Some highlights from the week. What are yours?
- diplomatic crisis in Latin America
- primaries the made one party's decision but not another's
- a "monster" and a campaign resignation
- jobs losses and recession fears
- killings at Jerusalem seminary
- some quarterback retired