The New York Times' McCain story

We'll be devoting our entire class on Monday to the New York Times story on John McCain, which suggests, on the basis of suspicions voiced by two anonymous sources, that McCain may have had a sexual affair with a lobbyist during the 2000 presidential campaign.

There are three pieces that you need to read for Monday's class. Please print them out, make notes on them and bring them to class. Here they are, with links:

• The Times story
• A Washington Post story on the same subject, but handled very differently
• A New Republic article giving the background on the Times story

There may be other materials, including (I'm sure) some video. But we'll deal with that in class. I do not want to take the time for everyone to read these three articles. Please come prepared and ready to talk.

We'll deal with the ethics of photojournalism next Thursday.