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This syllabus will
change during the semester; it's your responsibility to stay
abreast of changes announced in class and on the course web
site.
Shortcut
to December 1 & final
exam
Aug 30 (Wed) - Introduction,
syllabus, assignments, readings
Videotape: "Electronic Battalions: 1975-1988"
Sept 1 (Fri) - Videotape:
"Harvest of Shame"
Sept 4 (Mon) - NO CLASS
(Labor Day)
Sept 6 (Wed) -
Topic: Before Vietnam - Media & Government
Video: Eyes of the World: 1919-1945 (excerpts)
Sept 8 (Fri) -
Discussion: Before Vietnam
Video: Cold War Postscript (#4) "War of Words"
Assignment: Strobel chapter 1, pp. 19-56
Assignment: Pop assignment A (1-page) due 9/11 (Cuban
Missile Crisis)
Assignment: Pop assignment B (1-page) due 9/13
(Cronkite/Vietnam)
Sept 11 (Mon)
Topic: Global Crises I (1960's)
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Video: Dateline 1962
Pop assignment A due: "Cuban Missile Crisis" (1962). Be
familiar with the role of the news media.
Sept 13 (Wed)
Topic: Vietnam - Hinge of Media History
Video: Vietnam with Walter Cronkite
Pop assignment B due: "Cronkite/Vietnam" (1968)
DROPPED
--> Pop Assignment C (1-page) "My Lai/Vietnam" due Mon
9/18
Sept 15 (Fri)
Discussion: Vietnam's impact
NEW!
Guest
speaker:
Jamie
McIntyre, CNN Military Affairs
Correspondent
Video: Vietnam Syndrome (Cold War Postscript)
NEW!
Pop assignment DD (1-page) (Africa crisis) due Wednesday
Sept 20
Sept 18 (Mon)
Topic: 1968 Turmoil & media role in U.S. Presidential
elections
Video: "1968"
DROPPED
--> Pop assignment C due: "My Lai/Vietnam"
Assignment: Pop assignment D (1-page) (Iran Hostage crisis
due 9/22 )
Sept 22 (Fri)
Topic: Global Crises II (1970's)
Iran Hostage Crisis
Video: Electronic Battalions
Pop assignment D due: "Iran hostage crisis" (1979-80). Be
familiar with the role of the news media.
Pop assignment E: McCarthy & the Media due Wed
9/27
Sept 25 (Mon)
Topic: Broadcast foundations I
Assignment: Read Salant pp 1-126 and Foreword by Mike
Wallace and (optional for context) Acknowledgments
Assignment: See "Wiley Toon Attention Span" (Supplemental
readings)
Sept 27 (Wed)
Topic: Broadcast foundations II (McCarthy years)
Video: Murrow & McCarthy
Pop assignment E due ("McCarthy & the
Media")
Sept 29 (Fri)
Discussion: Broadcast foundations
Video: Annie Lee Moss
Oct 2 (Mon)
Topic: The news "business"
Video: Television News
Oct 6 (Fri)
Discussion: The news "business"
Assignment: Read Salant pp. 127-179 (related to "The
Insider")
Oct 9 (Mon) (Yom Kippur
holiday)
Topic: Media "bias"
Assignment: Read Salant pp. 229-273 (related to "The
Insider")
Oct 11 (Wed) - NO
CLASS
Assignment: View the movie "The Insider" (available at the
Morris Library as DVD # 181 on reserve)
Assignment:
Analysis paper ("The Insider") due Fri Oct 20 by
4:00pm
Note:
To allow you ample time to view and analyze the movie
carefully and complete your Salant readings, and to allow
you time for writing your papers based on the movie and the
readings, there will be no class on Wednesday and Friday
this week and on Monday and Friday next week. For your
convenience, an optional group viewing of "The Insider" is
scheduled on October 12 (see below). Please be attentive to
the class schedule.
NEW!
Oct 12 (Thurs) -
Viewing of "The
Insider"
Media Services Viewing Room, Morris Library basement. 4:00pm
(optional group viewing)
Oct 13 (Fri) - NO
CLASS
Oct 16 (Mon) - NO
CLASS
Oct 18 (Wed)
Discussion: "The Insider"
As you wrap up your papers, be prepared to discuss your
ideas (and learn from others) in our class
discussion.
Oct 20 (Fri) - NO
CLASS
Papers due today ("The Insider") by 4:00pm
Oct 23 (Mon)
Topic: Global Crises III (1980's & 1990's)
Video: Somalia soldiers
Assignment: Pop assignments F, Somalia (1-page) due Friday
Oct 27
Oct 25 (Wed)
Topic: International crisis (media) management
Read Strobel chapters 2 & 3 (pp 57-125)
Oct 27 (Fri)
Discussion: Somalia
Pop assignment F due (1-page) Somalia
Oct 30 (Mon)
Topic: The CNN Effect
Assignment: Strobel chapters 4 & 5 (pp 127 - 209),
Livingston (on web site)
Nov 1 (Wed)
Topic: Contrasting Conflicts
Chechnya vs. Bosnia
Video: Chechnya coverage
Nov 3 (Fri)
Topic: TBD
Nov 8 (Wed)
NEW!
Topic: Election
coverage
Assignment: Watch TV coverage (Tuesday, November 7 between
9pm-11pm) of the U.S. election results on ABC, NBC, CBS or
CNN. Be prepared to discuss broadcast handling of this "live
event."
Nov 10 (Fri)
Video: "Nightline with Ted Koppel"
Nov 13 (Mon)
NEW!
Topic: Do audience
ratings drive news content? Video: "Audience and
Feedback"
Assignment:
Internet credibility project (3-5 pages). Due Nov
20)
Assignment: Read article "Online Journalists Get Rated, too
(NYT 11/11/99) (Supplemental Readings)
Assignment: Read Zukin, "Generation X" pp. 1-45
(Supplemental readings)
Nov 17 (Fri)
NEW!
Field Trip -
Washington DC (Newseum & CNN Washington)
Nov 22 (Wed)
NEW!
NO CLASS
Nov 24 (Fri) - NO CLASS
(Thanksgiving)
Nov
27 (Mon)
Topic: The Wild, Wild Web
NEW!
Guest
speaker:
Bruce
Kennedy, CNN.com Senior
Editor
Assignment: (Supplemental readings)
"The Wild Wild Web" WashPost 6/1/99
O'Mahony "The Future of WWW Archives"
Before
class, preview Kennedy's award-winning work
at:
•http://cnn.com/coldwar
•http://cnn.com/colombia
•http://cnn.com/china
Nov 29 (Wed)
NEW!
Topic: The New
News
Assignment: (Supplemental Readings) Kalb "The New News"
Robert Samuelson, Washington Post (6/18/99) "The End of
News"
Assignment: Read Rosenstiel & Kovach (Warp Speed) pp
1-98
Dec 1
(Fri)
NEW!
Topic: Global New
Media
Video: "Global Media"
Assignment: Middle East Insight pp. 29-61 (reserve)
Assignments: Read Mifflin, NYT 10/12/98
Final
Exams (take-home) issued today - due Mon Dec
11
Dec 4 (Mon)
Topic: Global New Media II
NEW!
Guest
speaker:
James
Bullock, U.S.
Department of State Information Officer
Dec 6 (Wed) - LAST
CLASS
Topic: Outlook for the future
Dec 8 (Fri) - Optional
early submission of final
exam
essays
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