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“The bizarre aspects of covering race as America’s neuroses show themselves is in high relief in an election year,” Ray Suarez, senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, said as he opened an address to an audience gathered for a panel discussion at the Graduate School of Journalism Thursday evening.

As administrators of the School of International and Public Affairs consider streamlining the school’s academic structure, the international media concentration faces an identity crisis and a hazy future.

In 1942, Samuel Beckett fled Paris with his future wife just hours ahead of a Gestapo raid on their apartment. They traveled by foot across the French countryside, eventually hiding in the tiny village of Roussillon near Avignon.

Conservative blogger and former male escort Jeff Gannon, who was ousted from the White House press corps after allegations arose that he was planted there by President Bush, discussed his controversial past Wednesday night in an event hosted by the Columbia Political Union.

It goes without saying that political news and sports news should be very different. Nevertheless, if you watch CNN or MSNBC, chances are you’ll see political coverage that looks a lot like sports coverage, focusing on which candidates (or teams) are doing well this season and therefore have a chance to make it past the primaries (or to the playoffs) in order to become president (or World Champion).

On Sept. 19, the New York Times finally announced the end of its subscription-based Web component, TimesSelect, which had formerly charged readers for access to its opinion articles and much of its archives. As a Times marketing site proclaims, “Now everyone is entitled to our opinions.”

The newscaster hounded the girl under the camera light. "Don't you think this is an issue of free speech?" he said, drawing out the last syllable like a playground taunt.