Icecream and Sandy Davidson

This Tuesday, at the Rollin's lounge, we were privileged enough to have a guest speaker who is a teacher in the Journalism School. Her name is Sandy Davidson, and her specialty is journalism in politics. I, myself am not as informed with the presidential election as I should be, but I was very interested in what Davidson was talking to us about. 

She explained her views about the importance of journalism in the political world and how it has changed very much since the times of  Martin Luther King Jr. It seems that as the years progress journalists are more interested in the personal lives of presidential candidates, and anyone running for a government position. Back in the day, journalists were more intrigued by the straight facts of the presidential candidates and not the juicy secrets that are being pulled out into the news more and more. 

Obviously, not everyone lives a perfect "Mrs. Cleaver" life, and sometimes it feels like the presidential candidates should. When that is not the case, their home lives are shown on every paper, new station, etc. If you don't see it there you are most likely going to see it on Saturday Night Live, or the Jon Stewart show. I, personally didn't really think about these things until I listened to Sandy Davidson. I think she has very good opinions about the political campaign and  I would be interested in taking a class of hers.