NCS Students Quiz Journalists about the Election
Veteran political correspondents Tucker Carlson and Judy Woodruff traded insights about the presidential election in a lively give-and-take session with Middle and Upper School students on October 8.
Speaking to a packed audience in Procter Gym, the two journalists fielded students’ questions about a wide range of election issues, including the economy, vice-presidential choices, negative advertising, and the interaction of media and politics. Woodruff, now senior correspondent and 2008 political editor for PBS’s Newshour with Jim Lehrer, told the assembly that in over three decades of covering politics, she’s “never seen young people as engaged as you are now.” MSNBC Senior Campaign Correspondent Carlson’s often humorous comments included the reassurance that “It’s going to be OK no matter what happens. The system is a good one.” The students who introduced Carlson and Woodruff, were, respectively, Elizabeth Adamson ’10, and Amanda Gutterman ’09. Government instructor David Sahr arranged for the journalists’ appearance at NCS.
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