Good News, Bad News, No News
Good News, Bad News, No News
John Moe
Angela Kim
DECEMBER 27, 2008
- President elect Barack Obama
- (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
- Enlarge This Image
Web Resources
Related Stories
- Good News, Bad News, No News
- Good News, Bad News, No News: Executive Transparency, Printed Blogs, and Hotel Cutbacks
- Good News, Bad News, No News: Flight 1549, Economic Stimulus, and Love
- Good/Bad/No News: The Green Stimulus, Roland Burris, and Squirrel Eating
More From John Moe
- Now you can draw state redistricting maps too
- The coming conundrum of home DNA testing
- What mattered this year in technology
More From Angela Kim
Time for our weekly parlor game to keep track of the news of the week. We are joined by John Ridley, author and founding editor of thatminoritything.com, Yale University professor of literature Amy Hungerford, and Reihan Salam, associate editor at the Atlantic. This week, a special end of the year edition.
---
The 2008 Presidential campaign - good news, bad news or no news?
The recession hit hard and we all learned more about bailouts than we ever knew before. Washington Mutual and Lehman Brothers became part of history, unemployment soared, housing collapsed. Maybe we all learned some lessons from all this. Probably not, but maybe.
Economocalypse - good news, bad news or no news?
Things didn't exactly get wonderful in Iraq in the past year, but some would argue that at least the surge made things somewhat more stable. Then again, what kind of news was it that war was barely an issue at all during the presidential campaign?
The year in Iraq and Afghanistan - good news, bad news or no news?
More stories from our Good News, Bad News, No News series
Comments
Comment | Refresh
Post a Comment: Please be civil, brief and relevant.
Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. All comments are moderated. Weekend America reserves the right to edit any comments on this site and to read them on the air if they are extra-interesting. Please read the Comment Guidelines before posting.
You must be 13 or over to submit information to American Public Media. The information entered into this form will not be used to send unsolicited email and will not be sold to a third party. For more information see Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.