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Required Readings
• Buzenberg, Susan and Buzenberg, Bill, Editors. Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8133-9091-5.
• Strobel, Warren. Late Breaking Foreign Policy. U.S. Institute of Peace, 1997. ISBN: 1878379674.
• Rosensteil, Tom and Bill Kovach. Warp Speed: America in the Age of the Mixed Media. The Century Foundation, 2000. ISBN 0870784366.
• The New York Times daily newspaper. This course draws heavily on current issues in the news media. You will be required to keep up with contemporary news by reading The New York Times, and by watching television news broadcasts. Students may subscribe to the Times at discount rates. Students will also want to remain familiar with news coverage on National Public Radio, PBS (WHYY-TV-12) or one of the domestic networks (ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC). We'll have regular discussions on current media handling of today's "crisis," a look at what's driving today's news.
Supplemental Readings: Articles, Papers & Pamphlets
Others may be added to the web site periodically.
• Zukin, Cliff. Generation X and the News. Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, 1997.
"Syria Steps Warily Toward Modernism" The Washington Post April 27, 2000 Howard Schneider
• Weingarten, Gene. "Permission to Deconflict Our Prose, Sir" The Washington Post May 30, 1999.
• "Wild Wild Web" page 4/Health The Washington Post June 1, 1999.
• Rich, Frank "Fast Friends of John F. Kennedy" The New York Times July 31, 1999.
• Samuelson, The Washington Post, "The End of News" (6/18/99)
• NYT "Reading News Can Be Dangerous" (11/4/99)
• NYT Online Journalists are getting Rated, too (11/11/99)
• NYT "In the War of 'All Politics, All the Time,' NBC is Heavily Armed" (2/21/2000)
•NYT "Reporters Try on Many Hats in Chicago News Experiment" (3/15/2000)
•NYT "Nirvana News" if you pay the price (7/9/2000)
• The Commissar Vanishes (Newseum)
• "Two Sides, One Story" (Berlin) (Newseum)
Video note
You will be required for this class to view the recent movie "The Insider" (see course schedule below). It will be available for viewing on DVD at the Morris Library, and we will schedule a "group" viewing in mid-October. The same movie is being shown by the university at the Trabant Center on Thursday, September 14 (for different reasons). You may, if you wish, view the movie at that time. However, you will probably find it beneficial to view it in mid-October after having completed the assigned reading associated with our class. (You may find it beneficial for this course to see it twice.)
