Internet Exercises

CNN All Politics
http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/

The Washington Post: Politics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/

C-SPAN
http://www.c-span.org/

PBS: Washington Week in Review
http://www.pbs.org/weta/wwir/

NPR National Public Radio
The website accompaniment to your National Public Radio.
http://www.npr.org/

The National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/

The Drudge Report
The website through which Matt Drudge has challenged the traditional media's control of the news.
http://www.drudgereport.com

Federal Communications Commission FCC
The FCC website provides information on broadcasting regulation and current issues.
http://www.fcc.gov

NewsLink
Provides access to many hundreds of news organizations, including most U.S. newspapers.
http://www.newslink.org/

Suggested Library of Congress Headings

The New York Times
Electronic Edition of The New York Times has almost all the news that is fit to print on the Web.
http://www.nytimes.com/

The Center for Media and Public Affairs
Analyzes mainstream print and electronic media coverage of the nation's political events.
http://www.cmpa.com/

The Office of Communications of the White House
This PDF is a comprehensive description of this office's operations by Martha Joynt Kumar. Parent site with other explanatory material is White House Transition Project.
http://whitehousetransitionproject.org/WH2001WHW.PDF

Wisconsin Advertising Project
Has a great many insightful pieces on congressional and presidential campaign advertising and media relations.
http://polisci.wisc.edu/tvadvertising/

Documents in the News [Frame Enhanced]
From Grace York at the University of Michigan; this site has a cumulative index of newsworthy topics dating from 1995.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/docnews.html