I recently finished reading _All the President's Men_ for my comps. It's a fun book in a lot of ways, but I also think it could come in handy for a writing class. As Woodward and Bernstein investigate the Watergate break-in, they get numerous sources to confirm or deny stories and facts, or even provide new information. Still, some sources refuse to go on record or only provide information on background. What I found really fascinating was the newsroom scenes after talking to sources.

I only caught about a half hour or so, but the Bill Moyers special "Buying the War" seems like it would be of great use in a rhetoric class. It's essentially an analysis of media coverage during the run up to the war in Iraq. What this means is that focus throughout (or at least what I saw) is on evidence, argumentation, credibility, tone and the like. While much of it is a critique of current journalistic practices, there's a whole lot going on that could be brought into the classroom.