All The President's Men

1) Bob Woodward had to contact "Deep Throat" to get information about the Water-Gate break in.

2) I think it was very difficult to get information about a story without the internet. Instead, the
reporters had to call their sources and interview them at their house.

3) Bob Woodward had to be careful about not being followed when meeting with "Deep Throat" because any member of the government could be following him and could rat on him.

4) When Carl Berstein gives Woodward the name Kenneth H. Dahlberg, Woodward has to use a phone book to find his phone number.

5) "Below the Fold" means, printed in the top or bottom half of the front page of a broadsheet newspaper.

6) Berstein wakes him up from his sleep, identifies himself, and then begins to ask numerous questions that Mitchell willingly answers because he is still half asleep.

7) Donald Secretti was a paid political prankster for Nixon. He put false information in people's mailboxes.

8) I think so many people confirm information because they don't want to publish false information. They need to confirm it so they know it's accurate.

9) They knew things were happening with the Watergate scandal but they didn't want to believe or jeopardize it.

10) The end result was that Nixon was forced to resign and a lot of people were put under arrest.

Good Night and Good Luck Questions

1) Why were CBS executives and its journalists so hesitant about questioning Senator McCarthy?
-They were so hesitant about questioning Senator McCarthy because they didn't want McCarthy to go against them and accuse them of being communists.

2) What method did Murrow and the other journalists use in the first story against McCarthy? Why did they choose this way to tell their story?
-Murrow and the other journalists used McCarthy's own words and pictures in the first story against him. They chose this way because they wanted to show the people that McCarthy words didn't support what he was actually doing.

3) Describe McCarthy's appearance on Murrow's program. In your opinion, was it positive? Negative?
-I think McCarthy's appearance on Murrow's program was positive because McCarthy was only making accusations without having any real evidence to support it.

4) Why did Murrow's schedule get changed on CBS from a nightly program to Sunday afternoons?
-Murrow's schedule got changed on CBS from a nightly program to Sunday afternoons because it became less popular.

5) What does Friendly and Murrow refer to as the "downfall of television?"
-Friendly and Murrow refer to the "downfall of television" meaning, the reputable news anchor is forced to deal with the sad reality that television has become more about entertainment value than educational potential.

6) What ended up happening to McCarthy?
-McCarthy ended up resigning.

7) What was Murrow's speech at the beginning and the end of the film about?
-At the beginning and end of the film, Murrow's speech about his experiences and how he viewed television and its impact on society.

Aaron Hernandez fiancée says she was instructed to remove box

     http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/27/us/aaron-hernandez-trial/index.html

   The fiancée of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez said at a hearing Friday that she was asked to conceal a box and take it out of her Massachusetts home after the murder of Odin Lloyd in 2013.

    Shayanna Jenkins' testimony came outside the presence of the jury during a hearing on the limits of her testimony. But it signaled where the prosecution intends to take its questioning of the key witness, who took the stand before the jury later Friday. She is testifying after being granted immunity.

Racist SAE chant was taught at national leadership event, fraternity says

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/27/us/oklahoma-sae-fraternity-racist-chant/index.html

    The national office of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity changed its tune.Just two weeks ago, that resulted in the shutdown of the University of Oklahoma SAE chapter, saying, "The national fraternity does not teach such a racist, hateful chant, and this chant is not part of any education or training." The fraternity brothers probably "learned the song from fellow chapter members," SAE said. The SAE national office said otherwise. 

     The OU chapter, SAE said, "likely learned a racist chant while attending a national leadership school about four years ago." The fraternity invites hundreds of leaders to a six-day conference every year, SAE said.

Bombing in Yemen intensifies; region aligns against Houthis

     http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/28/middleeast/yemen-saudi-arabia-intervention/index.html

     In just a few weeks' time, good relations with neighbors have become a matter of survival for Yemen President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi.

     On Saturday, he rallied regional allies in Egypt, while they bombarded his enemies in his country.After Houthi rebels occupied the capital Sanaa weeks ago, Hadi's government fled. When the President called for military intervention to beat back their attempt to overthrow him, adjacent countries answered this week with a grand airstrike operation.

Taraji Henson apologizes to police officers after racial profiling claims

 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/28/entertainment/taraji-henson-apologizes/index.html

   Actress Taraji P. Henson is apologizing for claiming her son was racially profiled during a traffic stop in Southern California last year. The Glendale Police Department released dash cam video of the encounter Friday, which contradicted her son's claims. 

     Police released the footage after Henson commented about the alleged profiling in an Uptown Magazine interview published last month. In her interview, the star of the hit television show "Empire" said her son, Marcell Johnson, 20, was racially profiled in Glendale and at the University of Southern California, where she accused campus police of stopping him for "having his hands in his pockets."

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